I have seen developers writing toString method in each of their bean class. The purpose is to print the bean variables for logging or debugging purposes. I thought of reducing their effort by writing a generic toString method to have in their base bean class. It works for simple bean classes. Its no-brainer you can modify to work for others.

public String toString() {
	String lineSeaparator = System.getProperty("line.separator");
	StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer(lineSeaparator);
	buffer.append("|---------");
	buffer.append(this.getClass());
	buffer.append("---------|");
	buffer.append(lineSeaparator);
	Method[] methods = this.getClass().getMethods();
	if(methods != null && methods.length >0){
		Method method = null;
		for(int i =0; i< methods.length; i++){
			method = methods[i];
			if(method.getName().startsWith("get")
			&& !method.getName().startsWith("getClass")){
			buffer.append
                                (method.getName().replaceAll("get",""));
			buffer.append(" = ");
			Object[] params=null;
			try {
				buffer.append
                                   (method.invoke(this, params));
			} catch (Exception e) {
				buffer.append("  ");
			}
				buffer.append(lineSeaparator);
			}
		}
	}
	buffer.append("|---------------------------------------------|");
	buffer.append(lineSeaparator);
	return buffer.toString();
}

Any suggestions to improve are welcome.