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I've had good luck with Apache Commons. What specifically do you find objectionable about it? Also, you really shouldn't just drop "x sucks" into a conversatio

• coldtea 13y ago
  Well, regarding the "x sucks", I was responding to someone who advised people to "forget about pretty much the entire built-in standard library" lest you want to go insane. As for the Apache Commons, well where to start? It's been several years since I last dealed with them, on my Java days, but there were lots of issues. From the general overboard AbstractFactoryProxyFactorytis and overall OO fails (real example: DoubleListIteratorListIterator), to useless utility classes that replicate already existing SDK capabilities, to the lack of generics support for the collections (for a looooong time, don't know if they fixed this now) -- oh, and them not being compatible with Java collection interfaces either --, to lack of thread safety, to string output libraries blisfully unaware of the existance of encodings, and a whole lot more besides.