Does Apache or some other CLIENT JAVA implementation support HTTP/2?
Jetty has support for HTTP2 starting from version 9.3. This includes the server and the client.
There is OkHttp: An HTTP & HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
Jetty's provides two HTTP/2 Java client APIs. Both require Java 8 (or better) and the mandatory use of the ALPN, as explained here.
Low level APIs
These APIs are based on HTTP2Client, it's based on the HTTP/2 concepts of session and streams and uses listeners to be notified of the HTTP/2 frames that arrive from the server.
// Setup and start the HTTP2Client.
HTTP2Client client = new HTTP2Client();
SslContextFactory sslContextFactory = new SslContextFactory();
client.addBean(sslContextFactory);
client.start();
// Connect to the remote host to obtains a Session.
FuturePromise<Session> sessionPromise = new FuturePromise<>();
client.connect(sslContextFactory, new InetSocketAddress(host, port), new ServerSessionListener.Adapter(), sessionPromise);
Session session = sessionPromise.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
// Use the session to make requests.
HttpFields requestFields = new HttpFields();
requestFields.put("User-Agent", client.getClass().getName() + "/" + Jetty.VERSION);
MetaData.Request metaData = new MetaData.Request("GET", new HttpURI("https://webtide.com/"), HttpVersion.HTTP_2, requestFields);
HeadersFrame headersFrame = new HeadersFrame(metaData, null, true);
session.newStream(headersFrame, new Promise.Adapter<>(), new Stream.Listener.Adapter()
{
@Override
public void onHeaders(Stream stream, HeadersFrame frame)
{
// Response headers.
System.err.println(frame);
}
@Override
public void onData(Stream stream, DataFrame frame, Callback callback)
{
// Response content.
System.err.println(frame);
callback.succeeded();
}
});
High Level APIs
Jetty's HttpClient
provides a way to use different transports, one of which is the HTTP/2 transport. Applications will use the higher level HTTP APIs, but underneath Jetty will use HTTP/2 to transport the HTTP semantic.
In this way, applications can use the high level APIs provided by HttpClient
transparently, and factor out what transport to use in configuration or startup code.
// Setup and start HttpClient with HTTP/2 transport.
HTTP2Client http2Client = new HTTP2Client();
SslContextFactory sslContextFactory = new SslContextFactory();
HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient(new HttpClientTransportOverHTTP2(http2Client), sslContextFactory);
httpClient.start();
// Make a request.
ContentResponse response = httpClient.GET("https://webtide.com/");