This is the first stable (GA) release of HttpCore 4.1. This release provides a compatibility mode with JREs that have a naive (broken) implementation of SelectionKey API and also improves compatibility with the Google Android platform. There has also been a number of performance related improvements and bug fixes in both blocking and non-blocking components.

All upstream projects are encouraged to upgrade.

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: blocking I/O model based on the classic Java I/O and non-blocking, event driven I/O model based on Java NIO. The blocking I/O model may be more appropriate for data intensive, low latency scenarios, whereas the non-blocking model may be more appropriate for high latency scenarios where raw data throughput is less important than the ability to handle thousands of simultaneous HTTP connections in a resource efficient manner.

Download:

http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi

Release notes:

http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpcore/RELEASE_NOTES.txt

Tutorial:

http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core-ga/tutorial/html/

Oleg

Congratulations. HTTPCore is a great project and your hard work as well as great coding are highly appreciated.

Paul

+1 We use this to invoke RESTFul services, it's good stuff.