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copied!<p>Preamble: I am aware of using a list or other collections to return a result but then I have to go through the list plucking the results out: see 2nd example</p> <p>Preamble-2: I'm looking for an answer beyond "this is not supported in Java ..."</p> <hr> <p>I'm looking for a convenient way to return multiple objects from a Java method call.</p> <p>Kind of like in PHP:</p> <pre><code>list ($obj1, $obj2, ...) foobar(); </code></pre> <p>I'm really getting tired of passing holder objects in the arguments for example:</p> <pre><code>class Holder { int value; } Holder h1=new Holder(); Holder h2=new Holder(); </code></pre> <p>and then:</p> <pre><code>o.foobar(h1,h2); </code></pre> <p>... would be very interested if someone has figured an elegant way to get round this.</p> <hr> <p>Using a list</p> <pre><code>List<String> = foobar(); </code></pre> <p>There are two drawbacks to this:</p> <p>I have to first pack the List on the callee side of the house:</p> <pre><code>// this is on the callee side of the house ArrayList<String> result = new ArrayList<String> result.add("foo"); result.add("bar"); </code></pre> <p>Then on the caller side I have to pluck the results out:</p> <pre><code>// This is on the caller side List<String> result = foobar(); String result1 = result.get(0); String result2 = result.get(1); // this is not as elegant as the PHP equivalent </code></pre> <p>Further, say I wanted to return objects of different types say String, Integer I would have to return a list of Objects and then cast each object ... not pretty</p> <p>Thanks.</p>

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