Hello, I am currently using HttpClient 3.1 inside a servlet that needs to retrieve XML content from several webs, which must be a very common need.
I am thinking of moving my code to HttpCore or HttpClient 4. Before I make the transition I am researching for best practices using HttpCore or HttpClient inside a servlet container. I came up with the idea that it would be good to have a managed http client service inside the J2EE container, in such a way that the applications could get a client via JNDI lookup, in a similar way as they get connections from a database connection pool. Ideally, from the J2EE console or from another webapp, it would be nice to be able to monitor and administrate HTTP connections to the different hosts: setup connection parameters for different hosts at runtime, block slow performing hosts... Does anybody know if there is any J2EE container offering such capabilities ? Or some product / webapp that extends J2EE capabilities in such a way ? Thanks, Javier Ramos
