On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 3:11 PM Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurt...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 2:55 PM Ed Merks <ed.me...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This assumes that the problem really is httpclient's fault, which is >> kind of questionable given how widely used that library is. I'd also be >> concerned about all the problems such as proxy authentication and so on >> that have been carefully ironed out over the years that would need to >> start from scratch. Also, perhaps we'd lose many features, such as a >> connection pool to speed things up. It's a big open question... >> > > In terms of lose of features my brief look up yielded nothing (e.g. > connection pool is > "HttpClient.executor(Executors.newFixedThreadPool(NUMBER))" regarding proxy > support I would be really surprised if the in JVM implementations support > less things than apache httpclient. > This is meant to be food for thought as keeping up with all the third > party dependencies is really a whole lot of work with people willing to do > it becoming less and less. That's the reason I look for ways to reduce that > work as I don't have high hopes people will jump in to do that work. > Now I see that I forgot sharing the root cause of these thoughts https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpclient/RELEASE_NOTES-5.0.x.txt . Assuming this is major rewrite pending in ECF it might be good time to think of switching to the JVM classes. > > >> >> On 04.03.2020 13:48, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: >> > Slightly off topic but keeping up with httpclient has proved to be a >> > big timesync. It's probably about time to start working on >> > >> https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.net.http/java/net/http/HttpClient.html >> > based filetransfer implementation and stop losing the time to keep up >> > with yet another third party library. >> _______________________________________________ >> platform-dev mailing list >> platform-dev@eclipse.org >> To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe >> from this list, visit >> https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-dev > > > > -- > Alexander Kurtakov > Red Hat Eclipse Team > -- Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse Team
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