Understanding Spring Reactive: Servlet Async

In the previous article, we discussed how Servlet containers have evolved and turned communication from the Client to the Server into a non-blocking paradigm. In this article, we will be focusing on the evolution of Java Servlets (and Spring) towards a non-blocking, reactive world.

Let’s recall the flow request when received by the NIO connector:

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