Spring's StringUtils -- Stuff we do with Strings all the time

The other day i was looking for a simple way to take some Strings and automatically capitalize the first character. I stumbled upon Springs StringUtils and as it turns out it has a lot of nice utility functions.

Check them out: http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/util/StringUtils.html

There are many nice simple things that we need to do all the time:

• capitalize (first characters)
• uncapitalize
• Lots of utilities for String arrays -- adding to them, sorting etc

Here is a really nice one: splitArrayElementsIntoProperties

Check them out!