Support for Apache HttpClient 4.0

[Alan Stewart]

Is there any planned support for the Apache HttpClient 4.0 now that it's been released finally as of August 11?

I'm using the framework's CommonsHttpMessageSender, but it is just for the Commons HttpClient 3.1, I believe.

If no one has already started work on this, I was going to have a crack at it myself by extending AbstractHttpWebServiceMessageSender.

Thanks
Alan

[tareq]

Can you please create a JIRA request for this? Also, feel free to contribute the code if you wish

[Alan Stewart]

JIRA request, http://jira.springframework.org/browse/SWS-563, created.
I will have a look at this hopefully in the coming days
Alan

[jvthert]

I'm about to take on the same endeavour. We need to communicate with certificates and this is a lot easier with Httpclient v4. If we come up with something useful I'll contribute it.

[indoram]

I have checked out the latest the spring ws and found that its still using httpclient version 3. any ideas when spring-ws will be made compatible with httpclient version 4.

[tedpennings]

Will this deprecate support for HttpClient 3.x? If not, can you provide a rough estimate of when that deprecation may occur?

Thanks!

[Sounie]

I see Apache HttpClient is now at version 4.1, and the release notes mention

IMPORTANT: please note that the HttpClient 3.x branch is now officially END OF LIFE and is no longer maintained and supported by the Apache HttpComponents project.

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Stephen Souness

[Neo01]

Oh.. Apache HttpClient is already 4.1 now. I thought it is still in 4.0. Thanks for the info.

[GarryD]

I read that Spring Web Services 2.1 is being developed to support a current version of Apache HttpClient. Is there an anticipated release for Spring Web Services 2.1? Thanks in advance.