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/**
 * Primitive utilities.
 * 
 * @version <tt>$Revision: 1958 $</tt>
 * @author <a href="mailto:jason@planet57.com">Jason Dillon</a>
 */
public final class Primitives {
    /**
     * Get a Boolean from a boolean, equivalent to the java 1.4 method
     * Boolean.valueOf(boolean)
     * 
     * @param value
     *          the boolean
     * @return the Boolean equivalent
     */
    public static Boolean valueOf(boolean value) {
        if (value)
            return Boolean.TRUE;
        else
            return Boolean.FALSE;
    }

    /**
     * Test the equality of two doubles by converting their values into IEEE 754
     * floating-point "double format" long values.
     * 
     * @param a
     *          Double to check equality with.
     * @param b
     *          Double to check equality with.
     * @return True if a equals b.
     */
    public static boolean equals(final double a, final double b) {
        return Double.doubleToLongBits(a) == Double.doubleToLongBits(b);
    }

    /**
     * Test the equality of two doubles by converting their values into IEEE 754
     * floating-point "single precision" bit layouts.
     * 
     * @param a
     *          Float to check equality with.
     * @param b
     *          Float to check equality with.
     * @return True if a equals b.
     */
    public static boolean equals(final float a, final float b) {
        return Float.floatToIntBits(a) == Float.floatToIntBits(b);
    }

    /**
     * Test the equality of a given sub-section of two byte arrays.
     * 
     * @param a
     *          The first byte array.
     * @param abegin
     *          The begining index of the first byte array.
     * @param b
     *          The second byte array.
     * @param bbegin
     *          The begining index of the second byte array.
     * @param length
     *          The length of the sub-section.
     * @return True if sub-sections are equal.
     */
    public static boolean equals(final byte a[], final int abegin, final byte b[], final int bbegin,
            final int length) {
        try {
            int i = length;
            while (--i >= 0) {
                if (a[abegin + i] != b[bbegin + i]) {
                    return false;
                }
            }
        } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Test the equality of two byte arrays.
     * 
     * @param a
     *          The first byte array.
     * @param b
     *          The second byte array.
     * @return True if the byte arrays are equal.
     */
    public static boolean equals(final byte a[], final byte b[]) {
        if (a == b)
            return true;
        if (a == null || b == null)
            return false;
        if (a.length != b.length)
            return false;

        try {
            for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
                if (a[i] != b[i]) {
                    return false;
                }
            }
        } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

}