How to use httpClient to 4.3 in Spring WS 2.14? - httpclient

Question

With Httpclient 3 my Spring bean definition was
<bean id="messageSender"
class="org.springframework.ws.transport.http.CommonsHttpMessageSender">
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient">
<constructor-arg>
<bean
class="org.apache.commons.httpclient.MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager">
<property name="params">
<bean
class="org.apache.commons.httpclient.params.HttpConnectionManagerParams">
<property name="defaultMaxConnectionsPerHost" value="XX" />
<property name="maxTotalConnections" value="XX" />
<property name="staleCheckingEnabled" value="false" />
<property name="tcpNoDelay" value="false" />
<property name="soTimeout" value="XXXXX" />
<property name="connectionTimeout"
value="XXXX" />
</bean>
</property>
</bean>
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
</constructor-arg>
I want a similar bean configuration with the httpclient 4.3 classes.

Answer 1

I needed NTLMv2 authentication on my connection and I was able to succesfully use 4.x by configuring spring with the classes attached to this issue: https://jira.spring.io/browse/SWS-563
Here's a piece of my #Configuration:
#Bean public WebServiceTemplate webserviceTemplate() {
WebServiceTemplate webserviceTemplate = new WebServiceTemplate();
webserviceTemplate.setMessageSender(messageSender());
return webserviceTemplate;
}
#Bean public WebServiceMessageSender messageSender() {
HttpClientMessageSender messageSender = new HttpClientMessageSender();
// do 4.x specific configuration
return messageSender;
}