> Do experienced java programming concatenate a bunch of strings together, or is there a format method? Yeah, I've seen this a lot. IIRC, String concatenations

> Do experienced java programming concatenate a bunch of strings together, or is there a format method? Yeah, I've seen this a lot. IIRC, String concatenations with the + operator are compiled to use a StringBuffer for efficiency. There is also a static method String.format that works with C-like format strings. > Is anyone actually using Arraylist over Generics? I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this. The following is pretty standard Java, if you want a list of Strings. List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>(); The following gives you a list of Objects (the base type for all objects in Java): List list = new ArrayList(); If you put Strings into this list, then they come out as Objects. You'll have to cast to use them as Strings or the compiler complains.