One day, there will be a full increment release of Java, and when that two-point-oh version becomes official, I am desperately hoping they will include a fully implemented toString() method in the ...

I have found the humble Java toString() to be one of the most useful and powerful techniques in debugging and troubleshooting Java applications. That is only true, unfortunately, when and if the ...

package dustin.examples; import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.ToStringBuilder; /** * A simple representation of a Person intended only to demonstrate Apache * Commons ToStringBuilder. * * @author ...

Developers (including you) benefit when you provide a string representation of your class. By implementing IFormattable, you can take control of this representation and provide some flexibility.