Best Practice to Use HttpClient in Multithreaded Environment

Question

For a while, I have been using HttpClient in a multithreaded environment. For every thread, when it initiates a connection, it will create a completely new HttpClient instan

Answer 1

With HttpClient 4.5 you can do this:

CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom().setConnectionManager(new PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager()).build();

Note that this one implements Closeable (for shutting down of the connection manager).