I am currently using https://github.com/kevinsawicki/http-request I like their simplicity and the way examples are shown, but mostly I was sold when I read:
What are the dependencies?
None. The goal of this library is to be a single class class with some inner static classes. The test project does require Jetty in order to test requests against an actual HTTP server implementation.
which sorted out some problems on a java 1.6 project. As for decoding json into objects gson is just invincible :)
