Monthly Archives: October 2009

This article presents a convenient framework for preserving the look and feel of toString() outputs.    formatArg () creates a Map from it’s parameters, a map that contains a single entry, keyed by the name of the value to display. newHashMap is a type-safe Map creation method: formatObjectToString () returns a String given a List of Maps (which Maps can be created by formatArg ()). … By way of example, class BasicNumericDataCollectorAction from the DIrectory Server Log Analyzer uses formatArg() and formatObjectToString() in its overridden toString() method by presenting in String form the statistical items that are calculated by the class: Continue reading →