Does the CXF Rest Client use connection pooling?

Question

When I google, I see evidence that the CXF Rest Client uses connection pooling by default, but I'm not sure how to prove that. My sources are very old and I can't tell if it applies to cxfrs or just the web services. I can't tell if it's using HttpUrlConnection, HttpConduit, or Apache HttpComponents. Etc.

This is my maven dependency:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
        <artifactId>cxf-rt-rs-client</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.3</version>
    </dependency>

Does the CXF Rest Client use connection pooling by default? If so, is there a way to adjust the settings?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 06 '15 at 18:18

I got this answer from their mailing list:

Hi Daniel, As far as I can see from my sources for 3.0.1 and which may not have change much, cxf jax-rs client configuration uses HTTPConduit which in turn uses HTTP urlConnection for normal client and http commons client for async client.

So connection pooling if any might be at JVM level and not at cxf level for urlConnection.

Regards,

Ulhas Bhole

Depending on how you're using it, you can research HTTPUrlConnection or HTTPConduit and figure out how to configure them for thread pooling.

Does the CXF Rest Client use connection pooling?

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