Here you can find the source of normalize(final String uri)
public static String normalize(final String uri)
//package com.java2s; /**//from www .j a va2s . co m * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. */ import java.io.File; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; public class Main { public static String normalize(final String uri) { URL url = null; try { url = new URL(uri); return url.toString().replace("\\", "/"); } catch (MalformedURLException e1) { try { File file = new File(uri); if (file.exists()) { return file.toURI().normalize().toString(); } String f = null; if (uri.indexOf(":") != -1 && !uri.startsWith("/")) { f = "file:/" + uri; } else { f = "file:" + uri; } url = new URL(f); return url.toString().replace("\\", "/"); } catch (Exception e2) { return uri.replace("\\", "/"); } } } }