What's the thought on auto-boxing? I saw some checkins related: - timeout = timeoutProperty.getIntegerValue().intValue(); + timeout = timeoutProperty.getIntegerValue(); I hate autoboxing. If I see an explicit "intValue()", it tells me right away this is an Integer and not an int (and I need to therefore worry about nulls and NPEs).So it helps code-readability to explicitly not rely on autoboxing, and can avoid coding errors. If I do not see the explicit "intValue" (or similar things), I either think its an "int" or I have to hunt around to find the declaration to find out for sure what it is. I always thought autoboxing was a mistake and leads to more problems than it solves.