Question

I am trying to create a Java program that starts up, downloads an xml file from a http web address http://api.eve-central.com/api/marketstat and saves it to a set location so I can then parse it for the data I want.

What I would like to know is how do I download this document from this link in java for a standard computer application?

Answer 1

Did you try the XML SAX parser provide by Java?

Here is a sample code:

import java.net.URL;
import java.io.InputStream;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder docBuilder = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();

URL url = new URL("http://www.example.com/book.xml");
InputStream stream = url.openStream();
Document doc = docBuilder.parse(stream);