URL url = new URL(yourUrl, "/api/v1/status.xml");
According to the javadocs this constructor just appends whatever resource to the end of your domain, so you would want to create 2 urls:
URL domain = new URL("http://example.com");
URL url = new URL(domain + "/files/resource.xml");
Sources: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/URL.html