On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 10:00, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > --On Thursday, September 18, 2003 10:53 AM -0400 Henri Yandell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A Java HTTP Client project can learn a lot from a C HTTP Client, but no > > user of a Java HTTP Client will ever consider the C HTTP Client as a valid > > alternative [okay, very small % might]. > > That was what my consideration was - the developers would gain from the > synergy. The users might not gain directly though. -- justin >
The way to go about building this synergy is to engage the existing HttpClient project in the Jakarta Commons right now. Commons HttpClient and Serf may be completely dissimilar at this stage (serf uses APR and is written in C, and Commons HttpClient is in Java), but it might be beneficial to get both communities working together. to create similar products. Serf and HttpClient would continue as separate implementations, but one would try to synchronize feature-sets and releases. This approach would be similar to the way that Xerces is available in both Java and C++.
