[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.