Pluggability Enhancements to existing APIs Asynchronous support is Servlet 3.0’s most significant enhancement, intended to make the server-side processing of Ajax applications much more efficient.

Asynchronous programming helps you to improve the overall performance and responsiveness of your application. In this article we will explore the basics of asynchronous programming and write code ...

But the early seeds designed to make Windows a better parallel/asynchronous-processing platform are being sown, starting in 2009.