How to use Servlet 3 @WebServlet & async with Spring MVC 3?

Question

I would like to integrate the servlet 3.0 async support with spring MVC. Something like:

@RequestMapping(\"/chat\")
@WebServlet(name=\"myServlet\", asyncSupp         


        

Answer 1

You can sort of do this now with the fantastic Atmosphere library:

Here is a Spring MVC example: https://github.com/ghillert/atmosphere-spring-web-mvc