Is this the best way to download a file in java?

Question

public void download(String url, String destination) {
        BufferedOutputStream localBufferedOutputStream = null;
        URLConnection localURLConnection = null         


        

Answer 1

You should always look to libraries such as Apache. They have done all the hard work for you: http://commons.apache.org/io/api-release/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils.html

I use

static String   readFileToString(File file)
          Reads the contents of a file into a String using the default encoding for the VM.

quite a lot.

If you know you have a URL (and so stream) look at: http://commons.apache.org/io/api-1.4/org/apache/commons/io/IOUtils.html