Recommended method for escaping HTML in Java

Question

Is there a recommended way to escape <, >, \" and & characters when outputting HTML in plain Java code? (Other

Answer 1

org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils is now deprecated. You must now use org.apache.commons.text.StringEscapeUtils by

    
        org.apache.commons
        commons-text
        ${commons.text.version}