First BETA Version 4.0 of HttpComponents- HttpCore Released
The Apache Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol Components project, has released the first BETA version of HttpComponents HttpCore 4.0-beta1. This release marks the end of API instability in HttpCore. As of this release the API compatibility between minor releases in 4.x codeline will be maintained. It includes several major improvements such as enhanced HTTP message parsing API and optimized parser implementations, Java 5.0 compatibility for HttpCore NIO extensions.The focus of the development efforts will be towards providing better test coverage, documentation and performance optimizations. The HttpCore components implement the most fundamental aspects of the HTTP protocol. They are sufficient to develop basic client side and server side HTTP services with a minimal footprint and no external dependencies. HttpCore NIO extensions can be used to build asynchronous HTTP services based on non-blocking I/O model capable of handling a great number of simultaneous connections with just a few I/O threads.
