HTMLURLs

HTMLURLs is an open-source Java class that contains a collection of static utility methods to manipulate and convert URL (Uniform Resource Locator) addresses from java.lang.String to java.net.URL objects and vice versa.
This class extend the com.tecnick.htmlutils Java package that provides a collection of utilities to create, parse and convert HTML/XHTML documents.
The HTMLURLs class is very useful in Web-based application development because speeds up the URLs manipulation, that is a common task.

The HTMLURLs main features are:
allows set up a java.net.URL object starting from various String representation;
checks if an URL is absolute or relative to the current local path.
get full canonical URL address by resolving various combined relative paths (e.g.: "http://www.site.com/dir/subdir/../image.gif" became "http://www.site.com/dir/image.gif"); this last case resolve a very common problem in Web-applications.