Writes Data of Various Types to Standard Output

StdOut.java

import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.Locale;

public final class StdOut
{
    private static final String CHARSET_NAME = "UTF-8";
    private static final Locale LOCALE = Locale.US;
    private static PrintWriter out;

    static
    {
        try
        {
            out = new PrintWriter( new OutputStreamWriter( System.out, CHARSET_NAME ), true );
        } catch ( UnsupportedEncodingException e ) {
            System.out.println( e );
        }
    }

    private StdOut() { }

    @Deprecated
    public static void close()              { out.close(); }
    public static void println()            { out.println(); }
    public static void println( Object x )  { out.println( x ); }
    public static void println( boolean x ) { out.println( x ); }
    public static void println( char x )    { out.println( x ); }
    public static void println( double x )  { out.println( x ); }
    public static void println( float x )   { out.println( x ); }
    public static void println( int x )     { out.println( x ); }
    public static void println( long x )    { out.println( x ); }
    public static void println( short x )   { out.println( x ); }
    public static void println( byte x )    { out.println( x ); }
    public static void print() { out.flush(); }

    public static void print( Object x )
    {
        out.print( x );
        out.flush();
    }

    public static void print( boolean x )
    {
        out.print( x );
        out.flush();
    }

    public static void print( char x )
    {
        out.print( x );
        out.flush();
    }

    public static void print( double x )
    {
        out.print( x );
        out.flush();
    }

    public static void print( float x )
    {
        out.print( x );
        out.flush();
    }

    public static void print( int x )
    {
        out.print( x );
        out.flush();
    }

    public static void print( long x )
    {
        out.print( x );
        out.flush();
    }

    public static void print( short x )
    {
        out.print( x );
        out.flush();
    }

    public static void print( byte x )
    {
        out.print( x );
        out.flush();
    }

    public static void printf( String format, Object... args )
    {
        out.printf( LOCALE, format, args );
        out.flush();
    }

    public static void printf( Locale locale, String format, Object... args )
    {
        out.printf( locale, format, args );
        out.flush();
    }

    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
        StdOut.println( "Test" );
        StdOut.println( 17 );
        StdOut.println( true );
        StdOut.printf( "%.6f\n", 1.0/7.0 );
    }
}