Java: Out with the Old, In with the New

Question

Java is nearing version 7. It occurs to me that there must be plenty of textbooks and training manuals kicking around that teach methods based on older versions of Java, whe

Answer 1

Converting a number to a String:

String s = n + "";

In this case I think there has always been a better way of doing this:

String s = String.valueOf(n);