I will have some free time in the next week or so. I can take the lead on incorporating this into the baseline, if someone wants to give me a good recommendation as to where to place the code. My initial thought is to create a new top level project inside of the trunk. Maybe "mina-asynch-httpclient" ?
On 8/17/07, Jeff Genender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > -- ..Cheers Mark
