If you are fortunate enough to be using JDK 7, the newly available Objects class is the obvious (at least to me) choice for implementing the “common” Java object ...

I previously blogged on the Apache Commons ToStringBuilder and discussed how it takes away much of the tedium normally associated with implementing toString methods. While implementing toString() does ...

It's a spectacularly terrible idea. I'm not exaggerating--it's a really, really, really, really bad and obfuscatory way of doing something that is trivial and straightforward to do otherwise. The ...