Using strings as booleans in Java

strings-as-booleans.java

/* The ugly way */
String isSomething = "true"

if ( "true".equals(isSomething) ) {
    /* It takes me a couple seconds to figure out why I'm here */
}

/* The easy-to-read way */
String isSomething = true

if ( isSomething ) {
    /* I know exactly why I'm here */
}