Android Rest Json Client

RestJsonClient.java

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpConnectionParams;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpParams;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

public class RestJsonClient {

	public static JSONObject connect(String url) throws JSONException, ClientProtocolException, IOException {
		HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
		HttpParams params = httpclient.getParams();
		HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(params, 0);
		HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(params, 0);

		HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(url);
		JSONObject json = new JSONObject();

		HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget);
		HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

		if (entity != null) {
			InputStream instream = entity.getContent();
			String result = convertStreamToString(instream);
			json = new JSONObject(result);
			instream.close();
		}

		return json;
	}
	
	public static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) throws IOException {
		BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));
		StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

		String line = null;
		try {
			while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
				sb.append(line + "\n");
			}
		} catch (IOException e) {
			throw e;
		} finally {
			try {
				is.close();
			} catch (IOException e) {
				throw e;
			}
		}
		return sb.toString();
	}
}