Building HttpComponents Client ============================ (1) Requisites -------------- HttpClient utilizes Maven 2 as a distribution management and packaging tool. Version 2.0.7 or above is recommended. Maven 2 requires JDK 1.4 or above in order to execute. However, JDK 1.5 or above is required in order to compile HttpClient. Maven installation and configuration instructions can be found here: http://maven.apache.org/run-maven/index.html (2) Executing test cases Execute the following command in order to compile and test the components mvn test (3) Building packages Execute the following command in order to build the JAR packages mvn package The resultant packages can be found in the target folders of their respective modules module-client/target/httpclient-.jar module-httpmime/target/httpmime-.jar where is the release version