基本上是这样的:

public static String appendWithDelimiter(String original, String addition, String delimiter) {

if (original.equals("")) {
    return addition;
} else {
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(original.length() + addition.length() + delimiter.length());
        sb.append(original);
        sb.append(delimiter);
        sb.append(addition);
        return sb.toString();
    }
}

不知道这是否真的更好，但至少它使用了StringBuilder，这可能会更有效一些。

下面是一种更通用的方法，如果您可以在进行任何参数定界之前构建参数列表。

// Answers real question
public String appendWithDelimiters(String delimiter, String original, String addition) {
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(original);
    if(sb.length()!=0) {
        sb.append(delimiter).append(addition);
    } else {
        sb.append(addition);
    }
    return sb.toString();
}


// A more generic case.
// ... means a list of indeterminate length of Strings.
public String appendWithDelimitersGeneric(String delimiter, String... strings) {
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for (String string : strings) {
        if(sb.length()!=0) {
            sb.append(delimiter).append(string);
        } else {
            sb.append(string);
        }
    }

    return sb.toString();
}

public void testAppendWithDelimiters() {
    String string = appendWithDelimitersGeneric(",", "string1", "string2", "string3");
}

//Note: if you have access to Java5+, 
//use StringBuilder in preference to StringBuffer.  
//All that has to be replaced is the class name.  
//StringBuffer will work in Java 1.4, though.

appendWithDelimiter( StringBuffer buffer, String addition, 
    String delimiter ) {
    if ( buffer.length() == 0) {
        buffer.append(addition);
    } else {
        buffer.append(delimiter);
        buffer.append(addition);
    }
}


StringBuffer parameterBuffer = new StringBuffer();
if ( condition ) { 
    appendWithDelimiter(parameterBuffer, "elementName", "," );
}
if ( anotherCondition ) {
    appendWithDelimiter(parameterBuffer, "anotherElementName", "," );
}

//Finally, to return a string representation, call toString() when returning.
return parameterBuffer.toString(); 

还有一个最小值(如果你只是为了连接字符串而不想将Apache Commons或Gauva包含到项目依赖项中)

/**
 *
 * @param delim : String that should be kept in between the parts
 * @param parts : parts that needs to be joined
 * @return  a String that's formed by joining the parts
 */
private static final String join(String delim, String... parts) {
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
    for (int i = 0; i < parts.length - 1; i++) {
        builder.append(parts[i]).append(delim);
    }
    if(parts.length > 0){
        builder.append(parts[parts.length - 1]);
    }
    return builder.toString();
}

所以你可能会做一些事情来获得你想要的感觉:

1)扩展List类-并将join方法添加到其中。join方法将简单地完成连接和添加分隔符(可以是join方法的参数)的工作。

2)看起来java7将在Java中添加扩展方法——它允许你将一个特定的方法附加到一个类上:所以你可以编写join方法并将其作为扩展方法添加到List甚至Collection中。

解决方案1可能是目前唯一现实的解决方案，因为Java 7还没有出来:)但它应该工作得很好。

要使用这两种方法，你只需要像往常一样将所有项目添加到列表或集合中，然后调用新的自定义方法来“加入”它们。

为什么你不在Java中做你在ruby中做的同样的事情，那就是在你将所有的片段添加到数组后才创建分隔符分隔的字符串?

ArrayList<String> parms = new ArrayList<String>();
if (someCondition) parms.add("someString");
if (anotherCondition) parms.add("someOtherString");
// ...
String sep = ""; StringBuffer b = new StringBuffer();
for (String p: parms) {
    b.append(sep);
    b.append(p);
    sep = "yourDelimiter";
}

你可能想要在一个单独的帮助方法中移动for循环，并且使用StringBuilder而不是StringBuffer…

编辑:修正了追加的顺序。