Java gives you the ability to dynamically create strings. Even after you set the string value, you can add more characters to the string value throughout the code. This process lets you build a string ...

I have previously blogged on how Groovy and ActionScript provide demonstrations of switching on Strings functionality that has not been available in Java. JDK 7 changes this for Java by introducing ...

.NET Framework 4 introduces a new method on its String class called IsNullOrWhiteSpace that checks whether a provided String is null, empty, or consists only of “white space.” This handy method is in ...

Thanks for the reply! I thought about that approach, but am on the fence about it (it just doesn't seem like a clean way to go, for whatever reason). My feeling is that there must be code in the JDK ...