Apache HTTP Client

• Factory configuration for HTTP client settings based on white- and blacklists of hosts
• Configuration of connect and response timeouts and maximum of connections
• Configuration of proxy servers
• Configuration of basic authentication
• Configuration of SSL trust stores
• Configuration of mutual authentication based on SSL client certs
• Re-use/Caching of HTTP client instances
• Support HTTP client initializer for special configuration

Apache CXF SOAP Client

• Same HTTP connection settings as supported for Apache HTTP clients
• Re-use/Caching of CXF client instances
• Support CXF client initializer for special configuration
• Configuration of schema validation (default: off, accept unknown elements)
• Thread OSGi-related classloader problems
• Evaluate the SOAP service infrastructure that is included in CQ6 already (but that is not based on CXF?)

Apache CXF SOAP Server

• Support implementing SOAP servers within CQ

REST Client

• Infrastructure for implementing lightweight clients for REST interfaces
• Based on Apache HTTP Client
• With our without support for WADL
• To be defined which / if a 3rdparty Framework like Apache CXF is used here as well