The Apache HttpComponents project is pleased to announce 4.4 GA release of HttpComponents Core.
Notable features included in the 4.4 series are: * Support for pipelined request processing on the server side * Support for pipelined request execution on the client side * Simplified bootstrapping of blocking and non-blocking (NIO) HTTP server implementations * Inclusion of SSL context initialization utilities from HttpClient Please note that as of 4.4 HttpCore requires Java 1.6 or newer. 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.
