diff --git a/other/java/client/pom.xml b/other/java/client/pom.xml
index 15921c4dd..413897238 100644
--- a/other/java/client/pom.xml
+++ b/other/java/client/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
     <groupId>com.github.chrislusf</groupId>
     <artifactId>seaweedfs-client</artifactId>
-    <version>1.1.9</version>
+    <version>1.2.2</version>
 
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.sonatype.oss</groupId>
diff --git a/other/java/client/src/main/java/seaweedfs/client/SeaweedRead.java b/other/java/client/src/main/java/seaweedfs/client/SeaweedRead.java
index de8da28d7..2efa64580 100644
--- a/other/java/client/src/main/java/seaweedfs/client/SeaweedRead.java
+++ b/other/java/client/src/main/java/seaweedfs/client/SeaweedRead.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
 
+import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ public class SeaweedRead {
     // returns bytesRead
     public static long read(FilerGrpcClient filerGrpcClient, List<VisibleInterval> visibleIntervals,
                             final long position, final byte[] buffer, final int bufferOffset,
-                            final int bufferLength) {
+                            final int bufferLength) throws IOException {
 
         List<ChunkView> chunkViews = viewFromVisibles(visibleIntervals, position, bufferLength);
 
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ public class SeaweedRead {
         return readCount;
     }
 
-    private static int readChunkView(long position, byte[] buffer, int startOffset, ChunkView chunkView, FilerProto.Locations locations) {
+    private static int readChunkView(long position, byte[] buffer, int startOffset, ChunkView chunkView, FilerProto.Locations locations) throws IOException {
         HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
         HttpGet request = new HttpGet(
             String.format("http://%s/%s", locations.getLocations(0).getUrl(), chunkView.fileId));
@@ -76,10 +77,12 @@ public class SeaweedRead {
 
             return len;
 
-        } catch (IOException e) {
-            e.printStackTrace();
+        } finally {
+            if (client instanceof Closeable) {
+                Closeable t = (Closeable) client;
+                t.close();
+            }
         }
-        return 0;
     }
 
     protected static List<ChunkView> viewFromVisibles(List<VisibleInterval> visibleIntervals, long offset, long size) {
diff --git a/other/java/client/src/main/java/seaweedfs/client/SeaweedWrite.java b/other/java/client/src/main/java/seaweedfs/client/SeaweedWrite.java
index 15db87195..0663e8d98 100644
--- a/other/java/client/src/main/java/seaweedfs/client/SeaweedWrite.java
+++ b/other/java/client/src/main/java/seaweedfs/client/SeaweedWrite.java
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 package seaweedfs.client;
 
 import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
+import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
 import org.apache.http.entity.mime.HttpMultipartMode;
 import org.apache.http.entity.mime.MultipartEntityBuilder;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ public class SeaweedWrite {
                                           final byte[] bytes,
                                           final long bytesOffset, final long bytesLength) throws IOException {
 
-        CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().setUserAgent("hdfs-client").build();
+        HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
 
         InputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes, (int) bytesOffset, (int) bytesLength);
 
@@ -84,7 +85,10 @@ public class SeaweedWrite {
 
             return etag;
         } finally {
-            client.close();
+            if (client instanceof Closeable) {
+                Closeable t = (Closeable) client;
+                t.close();
+            }
         }
 
     }
diff --git a/other/java/hdfs2/dependency-reduced-pom.xml b/other/java/hdfs2/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
index 6763ca1cd..bdc8c0b12 100644
--- a/other/java/hdfs2/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
+++ b/other/java/hdfs2/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
     </snapshotRepository>
   </distributionManagement>
   <properties>
-    <seaweedfs.client.version>1.1.9</seaweedfs.client.version>
+    <seaweedfs.client.version>1.2.2</seaweedfs.client.version>
     <hadoop.version>2.9.2</hadoop.version>
   </properties>
 </project>
diff --git a/other/java/hdfs2/pom.xml b/other/java/hdfs2/pom.xml
index bb1df42a7..ce5798da3 100644
--- a/other/java/hdfs2/pom.xml
+++ b/other/java/hdfs2/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
     <properties>
-        <seaweedfs.client.version>1.1.9</seaweedfs.client.version>
+        <seaweedfs.client.version>1.2.2</seaweedfs.client.version>
         <hadoop.version>2.9.2</hadoop.version>
     </properties>
 
diff --git a/other/java/hdfs3/dependency-reduced-pom.xml b/other/java/hdfs3/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
index 0968611c8..b5224b725 100644
--- a/other/java/hdfs3/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
+++ b/other/java/hdfs3/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
     </snapshotRepository>
   </distributionManagement>
   <properties>
-    <seaweedfs.client.version>1.1.9</seaweedfs.client.version>
+    <seaweedfs.client.version>1.2.2</seaweedfs.client.version>
     <hadoop.version>3.1.1</hadoop.version>
   </properties>
 </project>
diff --git a/other/java/hdfs3/pom.xml b/other/java/hdfs3/pom.xml
index a30705562..f676970ba 100644
--- a/other/java/hdfs3/pom.xml
+++ b/other/java/hdfs3/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
     <properties>
-        <seaweedfs.client.version>1.1.9</seaweedfs.client.version>
+        <seaweedfs.client.version>1.2.2</seaweedfs.client.version>
         <hadoop.version>3.1.1</hadoop.version>
     </properties>