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+// Copyright 2019 Oath Inc. Licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE in the project root.
+package com.yahoo.vespa.http.client.core.communication;
+
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
+
+/**
+ * A static factory for VespaHttpClientBuilder.
+ * The main purpose of this class is to avoid references to classes not compiled with JDK8.
+ *
+ * @author bjorncs
+ */
+// TODO Remove use of reflection once vespa-http-client only targets JDK11
+// The VespaTlsAwareClientBuilder class refers to classes in security-utils / http-utils that targets JDK11+.
+class VespaTlsAwareClientBuilder {
+
+    private VespaTlsAwareClientBuilder() {}
+
+    static HttpClientBuilder createHttpClientBuilder() {
+        try {
+            Class<?> builderClass = Class.forName("ai.vespa.util.http.VespaHttpClientBuilder");
+            return (HttpClientBuilder) builderClass.getMethod("create").invoke(null);
+        } catch (ReflectiveOperationException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+}