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Common Tools, Helpers, and Utils Library

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Matchers

• implements hamcrest.org matchers for
  • efficient matcher composition (improved DiagnosingMatcher)
  • logical chaining (and, or, xor)
  • string regex matching
  • exceptions
    • introduces a simple lambda-like mechanism to easily test code snippets or methods

Strings

• String conversions
  • int <-> roman numbers
  • int <-> alpha index (Excel columns)
  • Java identifier formats (camelCase, underscores)
  • Plural <-> singular
    • Implemented for english, help for other languages welcome
• extensible Formatter
  • like java.util.Formatter, but allows to add custom formats
  • Conversions listed above are available as formats by default
• extensible FormatParser
  • parses an input string against a format string
  • extracts the argument values
  • proof-of-concept stage

Log

• Wrapper for slf4j Logger that allows to format the log message, using the strings formatter.

XML

• A schema resolver that can load xsd-schemas dynamically from various sources
• Validating parsers for SAX and StAX

Objects

• Useful algorithms for building APIs using reflection

Parser

• a flexible and easy to use annotation based parser