title: How efficient is Apache Tomcat for Long Polling?
body: <p>I was going through this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/333664/simple-long-polling-example-code">Question</a> about long polling where other than providing the solution a interesting point has been made regarding the inefficiency of Apache to handle large number of requests. I had the same concern for Apache Tomcat? </p>
  
  <p>Is Apache Tomcat efficient enough to handle Long polling. I know one thing that Apache Tomcat supports fairly large number of concurrent thread but is it scaled to such a limit that we can use it for Long Polling in the way thread mentioned above explains?</p>