java url xml,如何从java中的URL读取XML响应？

I need to write a simple function that takes a URL and processes the response which is XML or JSON, I have checked the Sun website https://swingx-ws.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList , but the HttpRequest object is to be found nowhere, is it possible to do this in Java? I`m writting a rich client end app.

解决方案

For xml parsing of an inputstream you can do:

// the SAX way:

XMLReader myReader = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();

myReader.setContentHandler(handler);

myReader.parse(new InputSource(new URL(url).openStream()));

// or if you prefer DOM:

DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();

DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();

Document doc = db.parse(new URL(url).openStream());

But to communicate over http from server to client I prefer using hessian library or springs http invoker lib