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The following projects and applications use HttpClient.

Jakarta Slide
Jakarta Slide is an open-source project composed of multiple modules tied together using WebDAV. It includes a CM API, a WebDAV server, WebDAV client APIs, J2EE compliant stores and more.
JSR 147
Workspace Versioning and Configuration Management. Software AG is going to implement the current draft of JSR 147 API. The implementation will be based on the Jakarta Commons HttpClient and located in the Jakarta Slide project.
Jakarta Commons Latka
Latka is a functional (end-to-end) testing tool. It is implemented in Java, and uses an XML syntax to define a series of HTTP (or HTTPS) requests and a set of validations used to verify that the request was processed correctly.
Jakarta Cactus
Cactus is a simple test framework for unit testing server-side java code. The intent of Cactus is to lower the cost of writing tests for server-side code.
HtmlUnit
HtmlUnit is a java unit testing framework for testing web based applications. HtmlUnit models the returned document so that you deal with pages and forms and tables.
The XINS/Java Client Framework
XINS is a framework for describing and implementing API's that can be accessed by browsers. In contrast to SOAP and XML-RPC, HTML-based test forms can be generated to make calls to the API
LimeWire
LimeWire is a robust, open-source, multi-platform, consumer-oriented P2P file-sharing client. LimeWire uses HttpClient because it is a highly customizable and efficient HTTP manager, and has proven itself to work without any hitches on the hundreds of thousands of daily users of LimeWire
Heritrix
Heritrix is the Internet Archive's open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project.
X-Smiles
X-Smiles is an Open-Source XML parser, that has extensive standards support.
Nortel Networks
Operator Simulation Tool (OST) - A server side performance and scalability testing tool uses HttpClient to drive loads to web based server applications.
NOSE Applied Intelligence ag
HttpClient is used in a number of applications:
  1. ACE: A groupware (fat client) and document management system for closed user groups for project management, e-learning etc. HttpClient is used for communication between the user client and server to transfer XML messages.
  2. Desktop Navigator: Company wide, centrally managed "bookmark list" that integrates in the Desktop. HttpClient is used to check links.
  3. Backend of a Webapp for a major swiss airline. HttpClient gets XML data from the business layer.
MindIQ's Design-a-Course
Design-a-Course, a quick, easy, and inexpensive e-learning software tool allows novice users to create sophisticated web-based training (WBT) courses within minutes.
ContactOffice
ContactOffice is a complete groupware solution ('Virtual office') combining mail, calendar, storage, contacts, and more. HttpClient is used for back-end tasks such as inter-server communication and SMS transmission.
Newknow
Newknow is a Knowledge Management Suite based on Artificial Intelligence, Collaboration and Document Management and we use Commons HttpClient as part of our Knowledge Spider. This Spider retrieves all the information gathered by the Agents and the corporative sources on the network.
Web Abstraction Layer (WAL)
Web Abstraction Layer (formerly known as de4d2c) - development environment 4 documents 2 content - is an in-browser web page wrapper development system that returns it's extraction result as XML using XSLT generated from intuitive user input. Commons HttpClient is used as the robust base of the whole system.
Term Highlighting for Verity Ultraseek search results
Reflexe Technologies has developed a servlet-based application that works with Verity Ultraseek, formerly known as Inktomi Enterprise Search, that highlights terms that match search query, by intercepting HTTP communication between the browser and the original document server. It can highlight terms in HTML documents, as well as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Acrobat PDF documents, and uses the Jakarta HttpClient for better performance than that provided by the standard J2SE platform, and in particular because it must be able to offer NTLM authentification when required.
Mule - Universal Message Objects
Mule is a robust and highly scalable broker and services ESB framework. It is designed as a light-weight, event-driven component technology that handles communication with disparate systems transparently providing a simple component interface.
actiWATE
actiWATE is a Java-based software platform that is intended to make web application testing simple and cost-effective. actiWATE currently consists of:
  • Advanced framework for writing test scripts in Java.
  • Test Writing Assistant - web browser plug-in module which is intended to assist the test writing process.
Delosis Psytools
Delosis Psytools is a flexible platform for distributed cognitive research. Study participants perform tasks using the Psytools smart client, which relies on the HttpClient library for HTTPS communication of research tasks and resultant data.
Laszlo Presentation Server
The Laszlo Presentation Server is an XML-native platform for the development and delivery of a new generation of Rich Internet Applications.
Celware WebRecorder
Celware WebRecorder rapidly and easily exposes information on existing Web sites to other IT systems via a programmatic service, using the same interface as a standard Web browser. If you can see the information on the Web, Celware WebRecorder can learn by example and create a service to include that information in your IT environment-without making any changes to the Web server!
Thin Client GUI Builder
TCBuilder is a GUI development framework based on Eclipse platform to design, develop and debug swing based rich and interactive web applications. Its presentation engine uses HttpClient APIs to exchange GUI data and events with server based logic.
TreeGrow
TreeGrow is the data entry application for the Tree of Life database.
enKoo WebApps
WebApps is enKoo's solution to provide secure remote access to web based (i.e. Intranet) application on a remote network.

To have your application listed, write to commons-httpclient-dev@jakarta.apache.org .