Hi, First, I want to say that I am a big fan of Mina. For those who don't know me (which is everyone), I am a committer on Geronimo and have had several people ask about an async http client API to use with our NIO clients with comet for the 2.0 Geronimo server. We have had folks who want to be able to do HTTP calls to 3rd party servers from servlets/web apps to get content, and not tie up a thread while its doing its thing. So I decided to try to whip together an API that was similar to Commons HttpClient, fully asynchronous, but based on Mina...and I think I have 80-90% of it completed. It is here:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/sandbox/AsyncHttpClient For what it's worth...it doesn't seem appropriate for Geronimo. So I would like to donate it to Mina. Please have a look at it and give me feed back for if I have gone down the right path. It can be enhanced greatly as this is just a start, but I think it can be very useful and become a powerful API with everyone moving to NIO. Don't hold back any comments ;-) I would really like to see an API like this and I believe Mina is just perfect for this. Please let me know what you think..and if you don't think its right for Mina..thats ok too ;-) But getting your feedback would be best for me...and making this a community project is even better ;-) Jeff