[virmundi]

But how could we use this in a servlet container environment? Perhaps we'd wrap the response with a special wrapper to take advantage of this? I'm not sure.

I can see the use if one would recreate a server from the ground up. But that would be a rather large task.

[teraflop]

Tomcat has supported zero-copy file transfers for years -- since before this article was written, in fact.

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/aio.html#Asynchronou...