Is sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection the same class as java.net.HttpURLConnection?

http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Java-Document/6.0-JDK-Modules-sun/net/sun/net/www/protocol/http/HttpURLConnection.java.htm and http://kickjava.com/src/java/net/HttpURLConnection.java.htm

Any reason why you want to use the sun.net version?

No reason at all.  I was wondering if they are the same.  If I do CTRL-SHIFT-I in NetBeans to correct missing imports, if gives me a choice to select either one.   So, I was just wondering why there are two HttpURLConnection classes and if they are the same.

Thanks.  I was not planning on using it.  I'm relatively new to Java, and was just curious why the two classes wiht the same name.

In general any sun.* class is only used internally by the Java VM and is not intended to be used by a normal Java application. Sun does specifically not guarantee that the APIs for these classes will stay in-tact between versions. So the java.net.... classes are the ones that you usually use and they might internally use the ones from sun.www....,

HTH... Dominik

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Thanks. I was not planning on using it. I'm relatively new to Java, and was just curious why the two classes wiht the same name.
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Welcome in Java - it is interesting over here most of the time:) Basically you will see a lot of same named classes in different packages- that's one of the reasons why I always say that people should always import classes and not full packages - same named classes popup in strange places. And then the sun. package is a usual catch for a lot of new programmers - while sometimes you cannot avoid it, in general you should be able to. And when I cannot I usually write my own implementation in most cases. :)

Anyway - good luck with your Java.