What methods should go into a java.util.Objects class in JDK 7?

[Mike Morris]

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.)

Must they /really/ be added to the morass that the Java APIs have become?

(Sorry: As a non-contributor I probably don't have the mana to make such 
a comment, but this proposal really punches a lot of my buttons.)

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