Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hello All,

I have a servlet running on unix platform. I am facing some performance issue.
The number of requests per second is huge and i need to do a lot of processing on it.
This is resulting in piling up the thread pool. And after some time the incoming requests are discarded.

We decided to make a queue to append the incoming the requests in it.
And run a separate stand alone java application to process the queue.

I have never used such queue and lets say i have a queue, how can my stand alone application listen to it.
I am stuck and need some quick help.

Thanks in advance