As a relative newbie in the Java world, I am finding many things frustratingly obtuse to accomplish that are relatively trivial in many other frameworks. A primary example i
Use the "Async Http Client" formerly called ning http client library.
See
http://code.ning.com/2010/03/introducing-nings-asynchronous-http-client-library/
Now Available at GitHub
https://github.com/ning/async-http-client