A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
* a static method boolan Integer.isInteger(String) that returns true in the same cases when the parseInt(String) method is successful.  Add for other value types parseDouble, etc.

JUSTIFICATION :
This is one of many RFEs produced from a community discussion at
http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=143.  Further
justification could typically be found at the given link or off a
thread listed at the given link.

http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=196