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		duarose on March 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I like Java Of course, StringUtils is not in the core API; the first idiom "foo".equals(bar) works in Java everywhere, StringUtils.equals("foo", bar) will only work in projects that pull in org.apache.commons. Personally I prefer using facilities in the core API over third party APIs, even if the third party API is included anyway for some essential function.

Consultant32452 on March 25, 2014 [–]

I've been coding in Java for over 10 years. If I ran across pretty much any project that wasn't including Apache commons I'd be startled. I get your point, but some libraries are in such common use that for all practical purposes I consider them part of the language API.

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