I've actually written an asynchronous url fetcher for the java version
of GAE using the proxy class. Api wise, GAE is fully ready to do
asynchronous urlfetch requests, it just isn't yet exposed through an
easy api. If I find the time tonight, I'll put something up on Google
code.

On Jan 19, 9:39 am, John Patterson <jdpatter...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The task queue can allow you to run synchronous operations in  
> parallel.  Perhaps you could solve your problem by firing off many  
> tasks each which fetches a url stores the result in memcache and  
> increments a counter.  From your original request keep polling the  
> value of that counter until all tasks are complete and collect the  
> results.
>
> On 19 Jan 2010, at 05:24, devadvocate wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I'm just checking in to see if Async Http Requests For Java are a
> > priority and may be released anytime soon.  If not I'll have to
> > rewrite most of my app in python or use rackspace cloud hosting :-(
>
> > Thanks,
> > David
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