HttpComponents HttpCore 4.0-alpha3 has been released. HttpCore provides a set of low level components, which can be used to build custom client and server side HTTP services. ALPHA3 release features a number of enhancements and refinements to the base HttpCore API and adds an optional set of API extensions based on NIO. HttpCore NIO extensions can be used to build asynchronous HTTP services based on non-blocking I/O model capable of handling a great number of simultaneous connections with just a few I/O threads. Please check it out and let the HttpComponents team know what you think.

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