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Provides a single jar containing all JAITools modules which you can use instead of including individual modules in your project. Note: It does not include the Jiffle scripting language or Jiffle image operator.

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package org.apache.commons.collections.functors;

import java.io.Serializable;

import org.apache.commons.collections.Predicate;

/**
 * Predicate implementation that returns true if the input is null.
 * 
 * @since Commons Collections 3.0
 * @version $Revision: 1.2 $ $Date: 2004/01/14 21:43:09 $
 *
 * @author Stephen Colebourne
 */
public final class NullPredicate implements Predicate, Serializable {

    /** Serial version UID */
    static final long serialVersionUID = 7533784454832764388L;
    
    /** Singleton predicate instance */    
    public static final Predicate INSTANCE = new NullPredicate();
    
    /**
     * Restricted constructor.
     */
    private NullPredicate() {
        super();
    }

    /**
     * Return true if the object equals null.
     */
    public boolean evaluate(Object object) {
        return (object == null);
    }
    
}