Do you know of any free Java library which support the HTTP pipelining option of HTTP/1.1 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining ) ?
I realize my answer is about a year old, but as this is one of the top links for "java http pipelining", I thought it was relevant.
Hotpotato does indeed now support pipelining, and in my limited experience it's been working great so far. Also has a nice API to boot.
http://hotpotato.biasedbit.com/
EDIT: Looks like this project is now unmaintained and the author recommends the Async HTTP client: https://github.com/ning/async-http-client/