In Java is there an equivalent of the Convert class from C#?
<p>In C# I liked using the Convert class.  It made converting from one type to another easy and consistent.  I was thinking about writing a similar class in Java, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.  So I googled around to see if such a thing exists and wasn't getting good results.  So is anyone aware of something like this either in the standard libs, google guava, or apache commons?</p>
