Not dead but very much alive!

It's been a while since I updated anything on the SennMagic project, but here it is!

Version 3.5 has some minor changes and additions in existing classes (DFCUtils, GeneralUtils) but most importantly:
The 'chainable' collections api!

Don't you just hate it when you are instantiating objects and you have to pass a Collection instance and you can't do it in one line because the collection needs one or more items in it, like this:

car.setPassengers(new ArrayList<Passenger>()); // you can only add an empty list
//so you have to do:
List<Passenger> passengers = new ArrayList<Passenger>();
passengers.add(new Passenger("Bart"));
car.setPassengers(passengers);

That's all in the past with the chainable collections api!

The chainable collections api has extra methods (with very recognizable, straightforward names) to add/remove/replace items in the collections, but instead of the normal return value, it returns the collection itself.  This enables you to 'chain' actions like this:

//same as previous example:
car.setPassengers(new ChainableArrayList<Passenger>().put(new Passenger("Bart")));

I have created implementations for the most commonly used collections (+maps):

• ChainableList extends List
• ChainableArrayList extends ArrayList implements ChainableList
• ChainableLinkedList extends LinkedList implements ChainableList
• ChainableMap extends Map
• ChainableHashMap extends HashMap implements ChainableMap
• ChainableLinkedHashMap extends LinkedHashMap implements ChainableMap
• ChainableTreeMap extends TreeMap implements ChainableMap
• ChainableQueue extends Queue
• ChainablePriorityQueue extends PriorityQueue implements ChainableQueue
• ChainableSet extends Set
• ChainableHashSet extends HashSet implements ChainableSet
• ChainableLinkedHashSet extends LinkedHashSet implements ChainableSet
• ChainableTreeSet extends TreeSet implements ChainableSet

It's already proven to be quite handy, especially when creating unit tests, in multiple projects, by multiple developers.

Get it while it's still hot! 

Bart