Escaping Strings using org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils

You often run into the problem of escaping Strings from certain characters that need to be encoded as entitys in the format you use.

Apache has a great library in its commons-lang repository willing to do all that nasty and time-consuming work for you. Simply add this dependency to your pom.xml and start using it:

The class to go for when wanting to escape Strings is StringEscapeUtils.

Escaping html strings is as easy as

Have fun!