Sometime between version 2.7.3 and 2.11.0, jena upgraded the version of the apache httpclient library. It now uses 4.2.3. In particular, it calls a method that was added in the 4.2 version of httpclient, namely org.apache.http.impl.conn.SchemeRegistryFactory.createSystemDefault().
While that is a completely reasonable thing to do from the Jena development point of view, it is causing us trouble. Our application uses Jena and also uses GWT (Google Web Toolkit). Even the most recent version of GWT ( 2.5.1) comes packaged with an old, 4.0, version of the org.apache.http.impl.conn.SchemeRegistryFactory class, which lacks the createSystemDefault() method. This means that we cannot use Jena beyond version 2.7.3 until GWT Fixes its packaging (see https://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=4484). There are several bug fixes in recent versions of Jena that I would love to pick up, but cannot. Is there any chance that Jena would be willing to develop against httpclient is a way that is backwards compatible with httpclient 4.0? Thanks, Michael Altmann
