[android-developers] Re: HttpURLConnection or HttpClient

How about speed? which one is fast?

On Sep 15, 5:59 pm, Indicator Veritatis <mej1...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yes, we know why. Because Apache's HttpClient (and other closely
> assoc. classes in the org.apache.http package) is a much better API
> than Sun's own HttpUrlConnection (and the rest of java.net's Http
> support). You can do far more work with less code, and it reads much
> better too.
>
> So, for example, HttpClient has helper classes that help you deal with
> spinning off a worker thread and doing all the waiting on HTTP there;
> it is designed to work well asynchronously. Sun's HttpUrlConnection
> has nothing of the sort.
>
> That said, you don't get to depart from using java.net entirely. You
> should still use it for dealing with URIs and URLs. But not for much
> more.
>
> On Sep 15, 2:41 pm, cindy <ypu01...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I was told it was prefer to use Apache's library HttpClient, instead
> > of java's Http URLConnection. Does any one know why?
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > Cindy

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