If you are fortunate enough to be using JDK 7, the newly available Objects class is the obvious (at least to me) choice for implementing the “common” Java object ...

I previously blogged on the Apache Commons ToStringBuilder and discussed how it takes away much of the tedium normally associated with implementing toString methods. While implementing toString() does ...

It's not terribly clean, but you could use indexOf() and check if it returns -1. Better than breaking out a loop.