Just about every developer at some point has used a library or a component developed by someone else. Just about every developer at some point has also gotten frustrated with the library to the point ...

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Most developers have their own sets of frequently used utility functions, but they aren't properly organized or documented. The Commons Lang project's goal is to provide a uniform, tested, and ...

Java has been a top-ranked programming language for years, thanks in part to an enormous set of libraries—both bundled with the software and available free in open source repositories—that developers ...