Stuart Holloway uses something close to this in one of the presentations at infoq.com. He uses a method from Apache Commons stringUtils as an example of battle-

Stuart Holloway uses something close to this in one of the presentations at infoq.com. He uses a method from Apache Commons stringUtils as an example of battle-tested enterprise java. Whether or not that is truly representative of java code is perhaps another question but there is certainly a body of similar accepted code out there eg http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-2.5/src-html/org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils.html#line.5553 http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-2.5/src-html/org/apache/c....