Simple Uris Java helper

Uris.java

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;

/**
 * Unlicense granted <http://unlicense.org>
 */ 
public final class Uris {

  /**
   * An unchecked version of the {@link URI#URI(String)} construction, i.e. a version that does not throw {@link
   * URISyntaxException}. Instead, this method wraps the checked {@link URISyntaxException} into an unchecked {@link
   * IllegalArgumentException}.
   *
   * @param value The value to convert to an {@link URI}.
   * @return The {@link URI} represented by the String.
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException When the value is not a valid parseable {@link URI}.
   */
  public static URI create(String value) {
    try {
      return new URI(value);
    } catch (URISyntaxException exception) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(exception);
    }
  }

  private Uris() {
    // Prevent instantiation
  }

}