It's a spectacularly terrible idea. I'm not exaggerating--it's a really, really, really, really bad and obfuscatory way of doing something that is trivial and straightforward to do otherwise. The ...

Java’s String class encapsulates an array of bytes. A byte can be converted to a char, in which case, String becomes an array of characters used to compose words, sentences, or any other data you want ...

I previously blogged on the Apache Commons ToStringBuilder and discussed how it takes away much of the tedium normally associated with implementing toString methods. While implementing toString() does ...