Abstractions

A few abstractions on this earth are so common in Java that they deserve a common interface:

• Copyable — a thing that can be copied (without the silly casting of Cloneable)
• Named — a thing that has a name
• Resettable — a thing that has state which can be reset
• Strigifier — a thing which converts an object to a string
• Strigifier — a thing that can take a type and return an instance of that type