Such a class is known as a utility class. An example of a utility class is the Java standard class library’s Math class. Advanced techniques: Fields and methods in Java Learn seven advanced ...

Quite a lot of these classes were written a long time ago (in the 2nd half of the 1990s) and thus, date back to the initial versions of Java. Apache, Google etc. were not there in those days and free ...

Joe Darcy's recent post What methods should go into a java.util.Objects class in JDK 7? could be the beginning of bringing back some enthusiasm regarding JDK 7. Although the addition of these ...

Notice, that in Java 9 we get a Module as a first parameter? By the way, it's an AnnotatedElement and it's possible to define annotations on it... It's getting warmer... And an annotation may have a ...