Configure Asynchronous HTTP Request Processing for Tomcat 6 and JBoss 4.2.3
32.1. Tomcat 6 and JBoss 4.2.3 Support To use Resteasy's Asynchronous HTTP apis with Tomcat 6 or JBoss 4.2.3, you must use a special Restasy Servlet and configure Tomcat (or JBoss Web in JBoss 4.2.3) to use the NIO transport. First edit Tomcat's (or JBoss Web's) server.xml file. Comment out the vanilla HTTP adapter and add this: Your deployed Resteasy applications must also use a different Resteasy servlet, org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Tomcat6CometDispatcherServlet. This class is available within the async-http-tomcat-xxx.jar or within the Maven repository under the async-http-tomcat6 artifact id. web.xml Resteasy org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Tomcat6CometDispatcherServlet