The Apache HttpComponents project is pleased to announce the release of HttpComponents HttpCore 4.2-alpha2. This release comes with completely redesigned and rewritten asynchronous HTTP protocol handlers. New protocol handling API used in conjunction with connection pooling components introduced in the previous ALPHA release is expected to make development of asynchronous HTTP client agents and HTTP proxies easier and less error prone.
Sample application shipped with the release include an example of an HTTP file server capable of direct channel (zero copy) data transfer and an example of a non-blocking, fully streaming reverse proxy. We are kindly asking the users of HttpCore to review and try out the new protocol handlers and give us feedback while the 4.2 API is still not final. If no major flaws are discovered the 4.2 API is expected to be frozen with the next BETA release. Please note that new features included in this release are still considered experimental and their API may change in the future ALPHA releases. This release also marks the end of support for Java 1.3. As of this release HttpCore requires Java 1.5 for all its components. Several classes and methods deprecated between versions 4.0-beta1 and 4.0 GA (more than two years ago) have been removed in this release. Download - <http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi> Release notes - <http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpcore/RELEASE_NOTES.txt> HttpComponents site - <http://hc.apache.org/> About HttpComponents Core - HttpCore is a set of low level HTTP transport components that can be used to build custom client and server side HTTP services with a minimal footprint. HttpCore supports two I/O models: a blocking I/O model based on the classic Java I/O and a non-blocking, event driven I/O model based on Java NIO. The blocking I/O model may be more appropriate for data intensive, low latency scenarios, whereas the non-blocking model may be more appropriate for high latency scenarios where raw data throughput is less important than the ability to handle thousands of simultaneous HTTP connections in a resource efficient manner. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@hc.apache.org
