What is the simplest way to read JSON from a URL in java

Question

What is the simplest way to read and parse JSON from URL in Java?

In Groovy, it's a matter of few lines of code. Java examples that I find are ridiculously long (and have huge exception handling block).

I want to read the content of this link

Answer 1

Read json from url use url.openStream() and read contents from a string.

construct a JSON object with this string 

JSONObject(java.lang.String source)
      Construct a JSONObject from a source JSON text string.