Trying to debug the problems with my code and ThreadSafeClientConnManager

.classpath

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<classpath>
	<classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/java"/>
	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.maven.ide.eclipse.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER"/>
	<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
</classpath>

.project

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<projectDescription>
	<name>829061</name>
	<comment></comment>
	<projects>
	</projects>
        <buildSpec>
                <buildCommand>
                        <name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
                        <arguments>
                        </arguments>
                </buildCommand>
        </buildSpec>
	<natures>
		<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
		<nature>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Nature</nature>
	</natures>
</projectDescription>

HTTPClientTest.java

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Date;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.conn.ClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.conn.tsccm.ThreadSafeClientConnManager;
import org.apache.http.params.BasicHttpParams;
import org.apache.http.params.CoreConnectionPNames;
import org.apache.http.params.CoreProtocolPNames;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpParams;
import org.apache.http.protocol.BasicHttpContext;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import org.cliffc.high_scale_lib.Counter;

public class HTTPClientTest {
	private Counter __counter = new Counter();
	static HttpParams HTTP_PARAMS = new BasicHttpParams();
	static HttpContext HTTP_CONTEXT = new BasicHttpContext();	
	static {
		HTTP_PARAMS.setParameter(CoreProtocolPNames.USE_EXPECT_CONTINUE, Boolean.FALSE);
		HTTP_PARAMS.setParameter(CoreConnectionPNames.SO_TIMEOUT, 400);
		HTTP_PARAMS.setParameter(CoreConnectionPNames.SO_REUSEADDR, Boolean.TRUE);
		HTTP_PARAMS.setParameter(CoreConnectionPNames.CONNECTION_TIMEOUT, 400);
		HTTP_PARAMS.setParameter(CoreConnectionPNames.STALE_CONNECTION_CHECK, Boolean.FALSE);
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) throws IllegalStateException, IOException, InterruptedException {
		new HTTPClientTest().stress();
	}
	
	public void stress() throws InterruptedException {
		System.out.println(new Date() + ":  Starting thread execution");
		ThreadSafeClientConnManager threadSafeClientConnManager = new ThreadSafeClientConnManager();
		threadSafeClientConnManager.setDefaultMaxPerRoute(1);
		threadSafeClientConnManager.setMaxTotal(1);
		
		String httpGetURI = "http://maxim-lp/index.html";
		
		GetThread[] threads = new GetThread[] { 
				new GetThread(threadSafeClientConnManager, httpGetURI),
				new GetThread(threadSafeClientConnManager, httpGetURI),
				new GetThread(threadSafeClientConnManager, httpGetURI),
				new GetThread(threadSafeClientConnManager, httpGetURI)
		};
		
		for(int i = 0; i < threads.length; i++) {
			threads[i].start();
		}

		for(int i = 0; i < threads.length; i++) {
			threads[i].join();
		}
	}
	
	class GetThread extends Thread {
		private final HttpContext httpContext;
		private final String uri;		
		private HttpClient httpClient;
		private HttpGet httpGet;
		
		long nOfFailuersForThisThread = 0;
		
		public GetThread(ClientConnectionManager clientConnectionManager, String uri) {
			this.httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(clientConnectionManager, HTTP_PARAMS);
			this.httpContext = new BasicHttpContext();
			this.uri = uri;
		}
		
		public void run() {
			while(true) {
				try {
					if(httpGet == null) {
						System.out.println(new Date() + " " + Thread.currentThread().getName() + ": new HttpGet");
						this.httpGet = new HttpGet(uri + "?tid=" + Thread.currentThread().getName() + "&failures=" + nOfFailuersForThisThread);
					}

					HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet, httpContext);
					HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
					if(entity != null) {
						EntityUtils.consume(entity);
					}
					__counter.increment();
				} catch (Exception e) {
					nOfFailuersForThisThread++;
					
					System.out.println(new Date() + " " + Thread.currentThread().getName() + ": thread failure #" + nOfFailuersForThisThread + ", System did a total of " + __counter.get() + " GET requests");
					System.out.println(new Date() + " " + Thread.currentThread().getName() + ": Exception");
					e.printStackTrace();
					httpGet.abort();
					System.out.println(new Date() + " " + Thread.currentThread().getName() + ": Abort");
					// Create new HttpGet for error recovery 
					httpGet = null;

					if(nOfFailuersForThisThread > 3) 
						System.exit(1);
					
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

	<groupId>org.vekslers</groupId>
	<artifactId>829061</artifactId>
	<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<name>829061</name>

	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
		    <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
		    <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
		    <version>4.1</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
		    <groupId>com.github.stephenc.high-scale-lib</groupId>
		    <artifactId>high-scale-lib</artifactId>
		    <version>1.1.2</version>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
</project>