How can I speed up my HTTP,HTTPS calls in Java app?

Question

In a Java application, I am calling web pages generated in ColdFusion, using the doGet(String) method shown below. It seems really really slow... Is there any way that I can speed it up? Is there a different technology/class/strategy I should use?
Thanks.
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.lang.StringBuffer;
import java.util.*;
public class VSHttps extends VSAbstractWebConn
    public String doGet(String urlString)
        String result = "";
        try {
            URL url = new URL(urlString);
            URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
            String inputLine;
            StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
            while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
                sb.append(inputLine.trim()).append("\n");
            result = sb.toString();
            in.close();
            return result;
        catch (Exception e)
            e.printStackTrace();
        return "";
}

Answer 1

Hi,
please try a different forum.
-- markus.