One day, there will be a full increment release of Java, and when that two-point-oh version becomes official, I am desperately hoping they will include a fully implemented toString() method in the ...

The Groovy Object.inspect() method suffers the same weakness as Java’s (and Groovy’s) Object.toString(): the method is only as good as what the author of the class implemented (which might be ...

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