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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Recent changes to Home</title><link>https://sourceforge.net/p/jtype/wiki/Home/</link><description>Recent changes to Home</description><atom:link href="https://sourceforge.net/p/jtype/wiki/Home/feed" rel="self"/><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:36:14 -0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://sourceforge.net/p/jtype/wiki/Home/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>WikiPage Home modified by Benjamin Hoskins</title><link>https://sourceforge.net/p/jtype/wiki/Home/</link><description>&lt;pre&gt;--- v1 
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-Welcome to your wiki!
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-This is the default page, edit it as you see fit. To add a page simply reference it within brackets, e.g.: [SamplePage].
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-The wiki uses [Markdown](/p/jtype/wiki/markdown_syntax/) syntax.
+I've been messing around with reflection and serialization / de-serialization over the last few years in Java, and I got pretty tired of more or less writing the same code again and again with slightly different variations in use every time, so a consistent type conversion library and API was needed (I looked for one, and they all were quite old / too complex).
+
+I was looking for a simple interface that could repeatably do conversion in one line, no matter how complex.
+
+So:
+
+    :::java
+    import static uk.co.itstherules.jtype.JType.Convert;
+
+    ...
+
+    String converted = Convert(value).to(String.class);
+    Long converted = Convert(value).to(Long.class);
+
+
+### Examples ###
+
+[ReflectionExample]
+[SerializationExample]
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This is the default page, edit it as you see fit. To add a page simply reference it within brackets, e.g.: [SamplePage].

The wiki uses [Markdown](/p/jtype/wiki/markdown_syntax/) syntax.
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