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Sometimes a library you are writing may have optional dependencies. E.g. “if apache http client is on the classpath, use it; otherwise – fallback to HttpURLConnection”. Why would you do that? For various reasons – when distributing a library and you may not want to force a big dependency footprint. On the other hand, a ...