In the chapter of Effective Java previously mentioned, Bloch writes, “When practical, the toString method should return all of the interesting information contained in the object.” It can be ...

When we print out Objects, we often see a String that is not very helpful in determining what the Object represents. In the last lesson, we saw that when we printed our Store objects, we would see ...

It makes no sense to write a toString method in a static utility class (Item 4). Nor should you write a toString method in most enum types (Item 34) because Java provides a perfectly good one for you.