In this blog entry, I’ll look in some detail at the use of ActionScript’s toString () method in conjunction with ActionScript interfaces.

While languages like Ruby provide the pertinent information you need, why can't Java provide a decent, useable, toString() method right out of the box?

I introduced the issue of JAXB-generated classes not having explicitly overridden equals (Object), hashCode (), or toString () methods in the blog post Adding Common Methods to JAXB-Generated Java ...