How to slurp/get the content of a URI?

  I wonder what the best/canonical/Javaish way to get/slurp
  (i.e., read the whole content into a CharSequence) a URI is.
  In Perl, there is:

use LWP::Simple; $content = get( "http://example.com/" );

  Say, one wanted to implement LWP::Simple::get in Java.

  What is the best way to do so?

  I currently do this as follows (omitting some details, like
  exceptions, encodings, and close()-operations):

  Connect via an HttpURLConnection object:

final java.net.URL url = new java.net.URL( uri.toString() );

final java.net.HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection
=( java.net.HttpURLConnection )url.openConnection();

httpURLConnection.connect();

  Then, filling a StringBuilder from it:

final java.io.InputStreamReader inputStreamReader
= new java.io.InputStreamReader
( httpURLConnection.getInputStream(), "UTF-8" );

final java.io.BufferedReader bufferedReader
= new java.io.BufferedReader( inputStreamReader );

java.lang.String line; while(( line = bufferedReader.readLine() )!= null )
{ stringBuilder.append( line ); stringBuilder.append( '\n' ); }

  Is this the best/usual/canonical/Javaish way to do it,
  or should I use anything else?