The Goldfish Chronicles

Long before I started dumping code on Commons, I had my GenJava libraries. Originally these lived at www.generationjava.com, then they moved to osjava.org. I signified a util class with a W [it was before we had XxxUtils as such a common pattern, and yes it seems silly now]. It stood for Wrapper. Which meant something like Helper, but originally actually wrapped the underlying Java class. Its first few methods were probably written in early 2000, so 8 years of life.

Over the last couple of nights, I’ve been deprecating and removing code that has moved or parallel evolved at Commons. Tonight the StringW class, which originally made up a large amount of Commons Lang’s StringUtils reached the point where there was nothing of value left in it:

r2639

The aim is to deprecate gj-core as either being found elsewhere or not being worth the effort of maintaining.

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