[AXIS2-5898] Axis2 uses old version of HTTPClient/HTTPComponent Java library

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Environment: Matlab 2017b, on Windows Server 2012 R2
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Marius Kist
• Created: 17/Oct/17 08:37
• Updated: 18/Oct/17 09:08
• Resolved: 17/Oct/17 22:58

Description

Hello,

for work I have to access grib2 file subsets via OPeNDAP with climate data using Matlab.
For this task we employ the Matlab toolbox nctoolbox.

This toolbox relies on a the netCDF Java API to access container formats (e.g. hdf5, netCDF, grib2).

The newer Versions of netCDF java use a current version of the Java library HTTPClient.
Matlab uses (within the axis2 framework) a very old version of HTTPClient (Applications/MATLAB_R2017b.app/java/jarext/axis2/commons-httpclient.jar).

Therefore, nctoolbox is bound to use a very old version of the netCDF Java API, to be conform with the Matlab version of HTTPClient.

As a user this conflicting HTTPClient versions are a problem for me.
I cannot benefit from bugfixes which were done in newer versions of netCDF Java API.

My question is: Will axis2 be upgraded to the current version of HTTPClient in future releases ?

Best regards
Marius