Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* ==================================================================== Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. ==================================================================== */ import java.util.Map; public class Main { /** * Utility method that returns the named boolean value form the given map. * * @param properties map of properties (String -> Object) * @param name property name * @return property value, or false */ private static boolean getBoolean(Map<String, Object> properties, String name) { Object value = properties.get(name); if (value instanceof Boolean) { return ((Boolean) value).booleanValue(); } return false; } }