This actually times very well with some work we're going to do on
refactoring the download code for LimeWire in the coming months.  I or
someone else on the team should be able to work against a draft of this and
come up some API that is, at a minimum, is extensible enough for our use
(which hopefully is a good indication of its use for others too).  Thanks
very much for starting this, Oleg.

Sam

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk@apac...> wrote:

> Folks
>
> I have put together a very rough, very basic prototype of an asynchronous
> HTTP
> client based on HttpCore NIO 4.0 and HttpClient 4.0. While I am still not
> convinced we, as a project, can sustain an additional code line, I would
> like
> to make that code available publicly for two reasons:
>
> (1) there is a change this code may attract new developers; it would much
> easier to start with something that works (somehow)
>
> (2) I would like to be able to this client for load testing / performance
> optimization of HttpCore
>
> If I hear no objections I will go ahead and commit that code to the
> official
> ASF repository and clearly mark it experimental / non-official. Whether or
> not
> that code ever gets released is subject to an official vote and an open
> discussion prior to that. If there are objections, I'll just publish that
> code
> on Google code or elsewhere.
>
> Evil Comrade Oleg
>
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