HttpCore is a set of components implementing the most fundamental aspects of the HTTP protocol that are nonetheless sufficient to develop full-featured client-side and server-side HTTP services with a minimal footprint.
HttpCore has the following scope and goals:
A consistent API for building client / proxy / server side HTTP services
A consistent API for building both synchronous and asynchronous HTTP services
A set of low level components based on blocking (classic) and non-blocking (NIO) I/O models
Implementation of the most fundamental HTTP transport aspects
Balance between good performance and the clarity & expressiveness of API
Small (predictable) memory footprint
Self contained library (no external dependencies beyond JRE)