I created a mina-httpclient component on the trunk. Just working things out, along with an example and I will check things in.
On 8/21/07, Mike Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This sounds awesome! > > I would like to see this as the client part of AsyncWeb for two reasons. > First it seams to be a natural fit. Second it might give us a little > more incentive to finally get AsycWeb moved over to MINA. > > -Mike > > Jeff Genender 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
