[ivan_gammel]

It is not madness. Java is a good example of rich and modular standard library. Some components of it are eventually deprecated and removed (e.g. Applets) and this process takes long enough. Its standard library does include good crypto and http client, database abstraction API (JDBC) which is implemented by database drivers etc.

[Ygg2]

Yeah, and Java was always corporately funded, and to my knowledge no one really used neither the http client nor the XML parser. You basically have a collection of dead weight libs, that people have to begrudgingly maintain.

Granted some (JDBC) more useful than the others. Although JDBC is more of an API and less of a library.

[ivan_gammel]

HttpClient is relatively new and getting HTTP/3 support next spring, so it’s certainly not falling into the dead weight category. You are probably confusing it with an older version from Java 1.1/1.4.

As for XML, JAXP was a common way to deal with it. Yes, there’s Xstream etc, but it doesn’t mean any of standard XML APIs are obsolete.

[koakuma-chan]

My favourite is java.awt.Robot