Jakarta Commons Cookbook

11.2. Getting Jakarta HttpClient Source Code

Problem

You need the source code for the Jakarta HttpClient project.

Solution

Download the source distribution of Jakarta HttpClient 3.0. Following the steps outlined in Recipe 1.3, download “Commons HttpClient 3.0” instead of Commons Lang. The HttpClient source archive—commons-httpclient-3.0-src.zip—contains a directory named src, which contains the source for HttpClient.

Discussion

The commons-httpclient-3.0-src directory will contain the following:

build.xml

An Apache Ant build file that you can use to compile the source. If Ant is installed, you can compile or test by running ant compile or ant test.

maven.xml, project.xml, and project.properties

These three files are Maven project files. If Maven is installed, you can compile or test by running maven compile or maven test.

src/java

This subdirectory contains the source for the classes in Jakarta HttpClient.

src/test

This subdirectory contains unit tests for the Jakarta HttpClient project. Each *Test.java file is an extension of JUnit TestCase class.

See Also

For information on obtaining the binary distribution for Jakarta HttpClient, see Recipe 11.1.