I need to push data to Flex clients, and I need more than 400 clients to connect to each host. Even though I'm using BlazeDS for RPC, I was thinking of using the XIFF XMPP library with a jabber server for pushing data to clients, since streaming in BlazeDS uses blocking IO. But, looking at the relevant classes in flex.messaging, flex.messaging.endpoints, and flex.messaging.client in BlazeDS, I see that it might not be too difficult to create a new servlet that implements org.apache.catalina.CometProcessor and a new BaseHTTPEndpoint subclass that can support multiple connections for each thread. Such an implementation would be able to support over 10K simultaneous streaming connections per host.
Is there anyone else who's working on this, or interested in working on it? Is Adobe already on the case, making this a waste of time? Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated. Adam
