Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source. * Copyright 2009, Red Hat Middleware LLC, and individual contributors * as indicated by the @author tags. See the copyright.txt file in the * distribution for a full listing of individual contributors. * * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. */ import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; public class Main { /** * Returns a copy of the specified URL; used to ensure that mutable * internal state is not leaked out to clients * @param url * @return */ static URL copyUrl(final URL url) { // If null, return if (url == null) { return url; } try { // Copy return new URL(url.toExternalForm()); } catch (final MalformedURLException e) { throw new RuntimeException("Error in copying URL", e); } } }