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

[Ryan Slobojan]

> 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