How to do URL decoding in Java?

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In Java, I want to convert this:

https%3A%2F%2Fmywebsite%2Fdocs%2Fenglish%2Fsite%2Fmybook.do%3Frequest_type

To this:

https://mywebsite/docs/english/site/mybook.do&request_type

This is what I have so far:

class StringUTF 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        try{
            String url = 
               "https%3A%2F%2Fmywebsite%2Fdocs%2Fenglish%2Fsite%2Fmybook.do" +
               "%3Frequest_type%3D%26type%3Dprivate";

            System.out.println(url+"Hello World!------->" +
                new String(url.getBytes("UTF-8"),"ASCII"));
        }
        catch(Exception E){
        }
    }
}

But it doesn’t work right. What are these %3A and %2F formats called and how do I convert them?

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