>From performance point of view, isn't it preferred creating new HttpClient
instance per thread? I'm asking because I saw in the source code a
synchronized block at AbstractHttpClient.execute() so I guess threads
sharing the same instance will be blocked at that point, Am I right?


olegk wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 21:10 +0000, KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) wrote:
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Moore, Jonathan (CIM) [mailto:[email protected]]
>> > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 1:15 PM
>> > To: HttpClient User Discussion
>> > Subject: Re: Confused about guidelines for using HttpClient instance in
>> > multiple threads
>> > 
>> > All this is trying to say is that you don't need a new
>> > DefaultHttpClient
>> > instance for every thread, particularly if you only have one connection
>> > pool. Multiple threads can use the same DefaultHttpClient to execute
>> > HTTP
>> > requests.
>> > 
>> > However, when the singleton instance passes out of scope, a clean
>> > shutdown
>> > requires also shutting down the ConnectionManager.
>> > 
>> > Does that help?
>> 
>> Then what's the difference between using the default client connection
>> manager, as opposed to the ThreadSafeClientConnManager?
>> 
> 
> Both are thread-safe but the default can have only one connection at a
> time, so requests can be executed sequentially, one by one, whereas
> ThreadSafeClientConnManager can execute multiple requests over multiple
> connections concurrently.
> 
> ThreadSafeClientConnManager was unfortunately a very bad choice of name
> for the class. 
> 
> Oleg
> 
> 
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