Hello.
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
example, a two-argument static equals method that returned true if
both
arguments are null, returns false is one argument is null, and
otherwise
returns the result of calling arg1.equals(arg2) (6797535 "Add shared
two argument static equals method to the platform").
A static hashCode method returning 0 for null and the value of
arg.hashCode() has also been suggested.
A set of
static int compareTo(int, int)
static int compareTo(long, long)
....
methods probably belongs somewhere in the platform too.
What other utility methods would have broad enough use and
applicability
to go into a common java.util class?
-Joe
Hi,
As a note, I've just put up an article about this on InfoQ soliciting
feedback from the wider Java community:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/09/jdk7-java-utils-object
Thanks,
Ryan Slobojan
