title: can newer web containers having Servlet 3 extend BlazeDS max # of simultaneous users?
body: <p>BlazeDS is implemented as a servlet and thus limited to roughly hundreds of simultaneous users.</p>
  
  <p>I wonder if the more recent web containers (Tomcat 7, GlassFish/Grizzly, Jetty, etc.) supporting Servlet 3 could be used to create NIO endpoints to increase the number of simultaneous users to the thousands? </p>
  
  <p>Is this a valid and practical solution? Anyone do this in production?</p>
  
  <p>Something like a mature version of this:  <a href="http://flex.sys-con.com/node/720304" rel="nofollow">http://flex.sys-con.com/node/720304</a>
  If this was of great importance back then, why now (when Servlet 3 is widely available) has there been no effort to try to implement NIO endpoints? (note, I'm a newbie here so feel free to state the obvious if I'm missing something)</p>
  
  <p>Benefit of NIO: <a href="http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t92965.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t92965.html</a></p>
  
  <p>If not, is a load balancer and multiple application servers, each having an instance of BlazeDS, the recommended solution (outside of going to LCDS, etc.)? </p>