Category: Java

Extracting text from a pdf file using Java is quite easy using the Apache PDFBox Java library. This library provides PDFTextStripper class which is used to strip text from PDF files. This library can be included using Gradle, maven, and other builds systems from the Maven repository. Gradle dependency: Maven dependency: Example to Extract text […]

Adding a text-based watermark to existing PDF using Java is quite simple using the Apache PDFBox opensource free library. This library is very handing and can be used to create new PDF and modify existing files. This can be easily added to maven and Gradle based projects by adding the following reference. Gradle dependency: Maven […]

There are many HttpClient and Rest Clients lib is available for Java developers. The most common is Spring Rest Template for REST client and Apache HttpClient a generic HTTP client. I personally like the Apache HttpClient library for making REST calls and Http Calls. I found one generic kind of REST client using Apache HttpClient […]

Java HttpClient library from Apache is very good, it provides many interfaces to perform different operations like  POST, PUT, and PATCH. One can also send String or URI encoded form and another payload very easily using the HttpEntity interface. You can easily add query strings and custom headers. To post JSON string, XML, or simple […]

Apache HttpClient java library is my most preferred HttpClient library for making HTTP requests. One can easily add parameters, body, and custom headers with clean interfaces. Since version 4.0 it also provides EntityUtils to read the response from HttpResponse into string and byte arrays. Here is a complete example to make get requests with parameres […]

Connection timeout is the time for which an HTTP client or Socket client waits, if the server doesn’t respond in that time or not found then the client closes the connection. HTTP also uses sockets internally. Connection timeout is different from the Connection Request timeout or connection read timeout. In many situations, the client doesn’t […]

Reading and writing CSV in Java can be very simple by the use of some well known and stable CSV library. One can write CSV using core java classes very easily for reading CSV can be problematic as there are many variations in CSV. CSV is one of the most common data formats for exporting […]

While doing development many times we need to merge two or more collections in Java. Sometimes we need simple concatenate two or more lists or sets or merge two or more lists by removing duplicates and sometimes we need to do this is sorted order. Here is one example to merge two lists, this can […]