Orphan classes in java-support

[Ian Young]

On 16 Jan 2014, at 02:41, Brent Putman <putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:

> Yes.  And amongst other reasons, that's because Apache HttpClient is
> moving to a model (so they say) where you will no longer be able to just
> 'new' an instance of HttpClient (e.g. DefaultHttpClient in the past). 
> You must use their builder to create instances.  And theirs aren't very
> Spring-friendly - they're skewing more towards a fluent-style API.  So
> going forward, perhaps even more so than now, we'll need some types of
> HttpClient builder/support/etc classes. (unless they totally switch
> directions again...)

That's interesting. I know Chad looked at a more fluent-style API, or at least the method chaining part of it, for some of our stuff (e.g., see https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/MDA-72). I'm not a  big fan of the style myself, I just haven't got up the courage to start closing Chad's issues ;-)

For HttpClient, I found this:

	http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/tutorial/html/fluent.html

That seems to imply it's an optional facade layer for the simplest use cases, though, not a general replacement. Is there some more information available?

	-- Ian



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