Mike Morris wrote:
Joe Darcy wrote:
For JDK 7, I think it is high-time the platform included a class like
java.util.Objects to hold commonly-written utility methods. For
...
What other utility methods would have broad enough use and
applicability to go into a common java.util class?
Ah! Let's just go back to coding in C, then. I cannot see any
justification for everything and the kitchen-sink being glommed into
the Java APIs. If people want these sort of static methods, they're
pretty-much all available in other libraries (Apache Commons, etc.)
The methods being discussed are generaly short and while easy to write,
all of them aren't so easy to write that they cannot have bugs. To me,
the existence of these methods in multiple other libraries argues for
putting robust version of them in the JDK since it is not worthwhile
adding a library dependency just to get a static two argument equals method.
-Joe
