diff --git a/core-java/pom.xml b/core-java/pom.xml
index dfc1e20cd9..bb3958f36c 100644
--- a/core-java/pom.xml
+++ b/core-java/pom.xml
@@ -211,6 +211,11 @@
             <artifactId>jmh-generator-annprocess</artifactId>
             <version>1.19</version>
         </dependency>
+		<dependency>
+		    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+		    <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
+		    <version>4.3.4.RELEASE</version>
+		</dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
@@ -464,7 +469,7 @@
         <protonpack.version>1.13</protonpack.version>
         <streamex.version>0.6.5</streamex.version>
         <vavr.version>0.9.0</vavr.version>
-
+        
         <!-- testing -->
         <org.hamcrest.version>1.3</org.hamcrest.version>
         <junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
diff --git a/core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/encoderdecoder/EncoderDecoderUnitTest.java b/core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/encoderdecoder/EncoderDecoderUnitTest.java
index da615eef6f..c27af983d3 100644
--- a/core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/encoderdecoder/EncoderDecoderUnitTest.java
+++ b/core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/encoderdecoder/EncoderDecoderUnitTest.java
@@ -1,20 +1,23 @@
 package com.baeldung.encoderdecoder;
 
+import static java.util.stream.Collectors.joining;
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
+
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLDecoder;
+import java.net.URLEncoder;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
 import org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-
-import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
-import java.net.*;
-import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
-import java.util.Arrays;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.Map;
-
-import static java.util.stream.Collectors.joining;
-import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.*;
+import org.springframework.web.util.UriUtils;
 
 public class EncoderDecoderUnitTest {
 
@@ -76,19 +79,20 @@ public class EncoderDecoderUnitTest {
 
     private String encodePath(String path) {
         try {
-            path = new URI(null, null, path, null).getPath();
-        } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
+            path = UriUtils.encodePath(path, "UTF-8");
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
             LOGGER.error("Error encoding parameter {}", e.getMessage(), e);
         }
         return path;
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void givenPath_thenEncodeDecodePath() throws URISyntaxException {
-        URI uri = new URI(null, null, "/Path 1/Path+2", null);
-
-        Assert.assertEquals("/Path 1/Path+2", uri.getPath());
-        Assert.assertEquals("/Path%201/Path+2", uri.getRawPath());
+    public void givenPathSegment_thenEncodeDecode() throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
+        String pathSegment = "/Path 1/Path+2";
+        String encodedPathSegment = encodePath(pathSegment);
+        String decodedPathSegment = UriUtils.decode(encodedPathSegment, "UTF-8");
+        Assert.assertEquals("/Path%201/Path+2", encodedPathSegment);
+        Assert.assertEquals("/Path 1/Path+2", decodedPathSegment);
     }
 
     @Test