Fluent HTTP Client

For example:

import com.jcabi.http.Request;
import com.jcabi.http.request.ApacheRequest;
public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    String html = new ApacheRequest("https://www.google.com")
      .uri().path("/users").queryParam("id", 333).back()
      .method(Request.GET)
      .header(HttpHeaders.ACCEPT, MediaType.TEXT_HTML)
      .fetch()
      .as(HttpResponse.class)
      .assertStatus(HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK)
      .body();
  }
}

Check JavaDoc for more details.

The only dependency you need is (you can also download jcabi-http-1.3.2.jar and add it to the classpath):

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.jcabi</groupId>
  <artifactId>jcabi-http</artifactId>
  <version>1.3.2</version>
</dependency>

Cutting Edge Version

If you want to use current version of the product, you can do it with this configuration in your pom.xml:

<repositories>
  <repository>
    <id>oss.sonatype.org</id>
    <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
  </repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.jcabi</groupId>
    <artifactId>jcabi-http</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>