[jetty-users] (Am I) using persistent connections with Jetty

[Otis Gospodnetic <otis_gospodnetic@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Would using Jetty (7? 8?) and persistent connections make sense in situations where clients more or less constantly stream data to the server?

For example, imagine a system where client applications:
* are running on hundreds of nodes of some cluster
* are constantly collecting performance metrics
* are sending these metrics via HTTP to some server

Qs:
* Would it make more sense to have clients keep persistent connections with the server instead of opening/closing them?
* If I'm not explicitly closing HTTP connections on either client (using HttpClient lib) or server (servlet running in Jetty 7.*) side, am I effectively already keeping all connections open/persistent?

Thanks,
Otis
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