Java HttpsURLConnection and TLS 1.2

Question

I read in an article that HttpsURLConnection will transparently negotiate the SSL connection.

The official document says:

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Answer 1

private static javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory getFactorySimple() 
        throws Exception {
    SSLContext context = SSLContext.getInstance("TLSv1.2");`

    context.init(null, null, null);

    return context.getSocketFactory();

}

String loginurl ="some url";
HttpsURLConnection connection = null;
URL url = new URL(loginURL);

connection = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();

javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory sslSocketFactory =getFactorySimple();

connection.setSSLSocketFactory(sslSocketFactory);

The above code can be used to enable tls 1.1 or tls 1.2 in java 1.7