utilt

This library attempts to make Java a little less painful.

Latest Maven dependency

<dependency>
  <groupId>edu.jhu.hlt</groupId>
  <artifactId>utilt</artifactId>
  <version>2.0.0</version>
</dependency>

SystemErrDisabler

Toggle writing to System.err - useful if tools you don't own have calls that aren't worth keeping around.

AutoCloseableIterator

Combination of Iterator<K> and AutoCloseable, inspired by C#'s IDisposable interface.

edu.jhu.hlt.utilt.io

Contains classes that can wrap java.nio.file.Path objects, checking if the objects are directories or missing. Useful for avoiding calls to Java's Files class everywhere.

LoggedUncaughtExceptionHandler

Implementation of UncaughtExceptionHandler that uses slf4j to log the exception.