StringUtils.java

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package com.sun.xml.ws.util;

/**
 *
 * @author WS Development Team
 */
public class StringUtils {

    /**
     * Utility method to take a string and convert it to normal Java variable
     * name capitalization.  This normally means converting the first
     * character from upper case to lower case, but in the (unusual) special
     * case when there is more than one character and both the first and
     * second characters are upper case, we leave it alone.
     * <p>
     * Thus "FooBah" becomes "fooBah" and "X" becomes "x", but "URL" stays
     * as "URL".
     *
     * @param  name The string to be decapitalized.
     * @return  The decapitalized version of the string.
     */
    public static String decapitalize(String name) {
        if (name == null || name.length() == 0) {
            return name;
        }
        if (name.length() > 1 &&
            Character.isUpperCase(name.charAt(1)) &&
            Character.isUpperCase(name.charAt(0))) {

            return name;
        }
        char chars[] = name.toCharArray();
        chars[0] = Character.toLowerCase(chars[0]);
        return new String(chars);
    }

    /**
     * Utility method to take a string and convert it to normal a string
     * with the first character in upper case.
     * <p>
     * Thus "fooBah" becomes "FooBah" and "x" becomes "X".\
     *
     * @param  name The string to be capitalized.
     * @return  The capitalized version of the string.
     */
    public static String capitalize(String name) {
        if (name == null || name.length() == 0) {
            return name;
        }
        char chars[] = name.toCharArray();
        chars[0] = Character.toUpperCase(chars[0]);
        return new String(chars);
    }
}