How to decode URL content in Java?

URLDecoder is a utility class for HTML form decoding. This class contains static methods for decoding a String from the application/x-www-form-urlencoded MIME format. Below example shows how to decode an encoded string.

package com.myjava.url;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URLDecoder;

public class MyURLDecode {
    public static void main(String a[]){
        try {
            System.out.println(URLDecoder.decode("special+chars%3A+%26%25*+", "UTF-8"));
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}