这对我来说很管用:

public void setHttpProxy(boolean isNeedProxy) {
    if (isNeedProxy) {
        System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", getProxyHost());
        System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", getProxyPort());
    } else {
        System.clearProperty("http.proxyHost");
        System.clearProperty("http.proxyPort");
    }
}

P/S:我基于GHad的回答。

这是一个小更新，但是从Java 7开始，现在可以通过编程方式创建代理连接，而不是通过系统属性。这可能是有用的，如果:

代理需要在程序运行时动态旋转 需要使用多个并行代理 或者只是让你的代码更干净:)

这是groovy中一个人为的例子:

// proxy configuration read from file resource under "proxyFileName"
String proxyFileName = "proxy.txt"
String proxyPort = "1234"
String url = "http://www.promised.land"
File testProxyFile = new File(proxyFileName)
URLConnection connection

if (!testProxyFile.exists()) {

    logger.debug "proxyFileName doesn't exist.  Bypassing connection via proxy."
    connection = url.toURL().openConnection()

} else {
    String proxyAddress = testProxyFile.text
    connection = url.toURL().openConnection(new Proxy(Proxy.Type.HTTP, new InetSocketAddress(proxyAddress, proxyPort)))
}

try {
    connection.connect()
}
catch (Exception e) {
    logger.error e.printStackTrace()
}

全部参考: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/net/proxies.html

You can utilize the http.proxy* JVM variables if you're within a standalone JVM but you SHOULD NOT modify their startup scripts and/or do this within your application server (except maybe jboss or tomcat). Instead you should utilize the JAVA Proxy API (not System.setProperty) or utilize the vendor's own configuration options. Both WebSphere and WebLogic have very defined ways of setting up the proxies that are far more powerful than the J2SE one. Additionally, for WebSphere and WebLogic you will likely break your application server in little ways by overriding the startup scripts (particularly the server's interop processes as you might be telling them to use your proxy as well...).

最近，我发现了允许JVM使用浏览器代理设置的方法。你需要做的是将${java.home}/lib/deploy.jar添加到你的项目中，并像下面这样初始化库:

import com.sun.deploy.net.proxy.DeployProxySelector;
import com.sun.deploy.services.PlatformType;
import com.sun.deploy.services.ServiceManager;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

public abstract class ExtendedProxyManager {

    private static final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(ExtendedProxyManager.class);

    /**
     * After calling this method, proxy settings can be magically retrieved from default browser settings.
     */
    public static boolean init() {
        logger.debug("Init started");

        // Initialization code was taken from com.sun.deploy.ClientContainer:
        ServiceManager
                .setService(System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().indexOf("windows") != -1 ? PlatformType.STANDALONE_TIGER_WIN32
                        : PlatformType.STANDALONE_TIGER_UNIX);

        try {
            // This will call ProxySelector.setDefault():
            DeployProxySelector.reset();
        } catch (Throwable throwable) {
            logger.error("Unable to initialize extended dynamic browser proxy settings support.", throwable);

            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }
}

之后，可以通过java.net.ProxySelector将代理设置提供给Java API。

这种方法的唯一问题是你需要在bootclasspath中使用deploy.jar启动JVM，例如java -Xbootclasspath/a:"%JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib\deploy.jar" -jar my.jar。如果有人知道如何克服这个限制，请告诉我。

这是一个对我有用的完整示例-注意，对于HTTPS有单独的属性(根据https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/net/proxies.html)。

下面的代码向https://api.myip.com API发送请求并打印响应。

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    System.setProperty("java.net.useSystemProxies", "true");
    final String proxyUser = "proxy-user";
    final String proxyPass = "password123";
    final String host = "some.proxy.io";
    final Integer port = 50201;

    // http
    System.setProperty("http.proxyHost",host);
    System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", String.valueOf(port));
    System.setProperty("http.proxyUser", proxyUser);
    System.setProperty("http.proxyPassword", proxyPass);

    // https
    System.setProperty("https.proxyHost",host);
    System.setProperty("https.proxyPort", String.valueOf(port));
    System.setProperty("https.proxyUser", proxyUser);
    System.setProperty("https.proxyPassword", proxyPass);

    System.setProperty("jdk.http.auth.tunneling.disabledSchemes", "");
    System.setProperty("jdk.https.auth.tunneling.disabledSchemes", "");

    Authenticator.setDefault(new Authenticator() {
                @Override
                public PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
                    return new PasswordAuthentication(proxyUser, proxyPass.toCharArray());
                }
        }
    );

    // create and send a https request to myip.com API
    URL url = new URL("https://api.myip.com");
    HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
    connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
    int status = connection.getResponseCode();
    
    // read the response
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
    String responseLine;
    StringBuffer responseContent = new StringBuffer();
    while ((responseLine = in.readLine()) != null) 
        responseContent.append(responseLine);
    
    in.close();
    connection.disconnect();
    
    // print the response
    System.out.println(status);
    System.out.println(responseContent);
}

综合Sorter和javabrett/Leonel的回答:

java -Dhttp.proxyHost=10.10.10.10 -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 -Dhttp.proxyUser=username -Dhttp.proxyPassword=password -jar myJar.jar