Mark wrote: > I will have some free time in the next week or so. I can take the lead on > incorporating this into the baseline, if someone wants to give me a good > recommendation as to where to place the code. My initial thought is to > create a new top level project inside of the trunk. Maybe > "mina-asynch-httpclient" ?
+1 from a non-binding person ;-) Jeff > > > > On 8/17/07, Jeff Genender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> First, I want to say that I am a big fan of Mina. For those who don't >> know me (which is everyone), I am a committer on Geronimo and have had >> several people ask about an async http client API to use with our NIO >> clients with comet for the 2.0 Geronimo server. We have had folks who >> want to be able to do HTTP calls to 3rd party servers from servlets/web >> apps to get content, and not tie up a thread while its doing its thing. >> So I decided to try to whip together an API that was similar to Commons >> HttpClient, fully asynchronous, but based on Mina...and I think I have >> 80-90% of it completed. It is here: >> >> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/sandbox/AsyncHttpClient >> >> For what it's worth...it doesn't seem appropriate for Geronimo. So I >> would like to donate it to Mina. Please have a look at it and give me >> feed back for if I have gone down the right path. It can be enhanced >> greatly as this is just a start, but I think it can be very useful and >> become a powerful API with everyone moving to NIO. >> >> Don't hold back any comments ;-) I would really like to see an API like >> this and I believe Mina is just perfect for this. >> >> Please let me know what you think..and if you don't think its right for >> Mina..thats ok too ;-) But getting your feedback would be best for >> me...and making this a community project is even better ;-) >> >> Jeff >> > > >
