使用Java 5变量参数，所以你不需要将所有的字符串显式地填充到一个集合或数组中:

import junit.framework.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;

public class StringUtil
{
    public static String join(String delim, String... strings)
    {
        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

        if (strings != null)
        {
            for (String str : strings)
            {
                if (builder.length() > 0)
                {
                    builder.append(delim).append(" ");
                }
                builder.append(str);
            }
        }           
        return builder.toString();
    }
    @Test
    public void joinTest()
    {
        Assert.assertEquals("", StringUtil.join(",", null));
        Assert.assertEquals("", StringUtil.join(",", ""));
        Assert.assertEquals("", StringUtil.join(",", new String[0]));
        Assert.assertEquals("test", StringUtil.join(",", "test"));
        Assert.assertEquals("foo, bar", StringUtil.join(",", "foo", "bar"));
        Assert.assertEquals("foo, bar, x", StringUtil.join(",", "foo", "bar", "x"));
    }
}

你把事情搞得更复杂了。让我们从例子的结尾开始:

String parameterString = "";
if ( condition ) parameterString = appendWithDelimiter( parameterString, "elementName", "," );
if ( anotherCondition ) parameterString = appendWithDelimiter( parameterString, "anotherElementName", "," );

通过使用StringBuilder而不是String的小变化，这就变成了:

StringBuilder parameterString = new StringBuilder();
if (condition) parameterString.append("elementName").append(",");
if (anotherCondition) parameterString.append("anotherElementName").append(",");
...

当你完成后(我假设你还必须检查一些其他条件)，只要确保你用这样的命令删除了后面的逗号:

if (parameterString.length() > 0) 
    parameterString.deleteCharAt(parameterString.length() - 1);

最后，得到你想要的字符串

parameterString.toString();

您还可以替换第二个调用中的“，”，以附加一个可以设置为任何内容的通用分隔符字符串。如果你有一个列表，你知道你需要附加的东西(非有条件的)，你可以把这段代码放在一个接受字符串列表的方法中。

使用基于java.lang.StringBuilder的方法!(“一个可变的字符序列。”)

就像你提到的，所有那些字符串连接都在创建字符串。StringBuilder不会这样做。

为什么用StringBuilder代替StringBuffer?从StringBuilder javadoc:

在可能的情况下，建议优先使用这个类而不是StringBuffer，因为在大多数实现中它会更快。

使用Dollar就像输入一样简单:

String joined = $(aCollection).join(",");

注意:它也适用于数组和其他数据类型

实现

在内部，它使用了一个非常巧妙的技巧:

@Override
public String join(String separator) {
    Separator sep = new Separator(separator);
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

    for (T item : iterable) {
        sb.append(sep).append(item);
    }

    return sb.toString();
}

Separator类只在第一次调用时返回空String，然后返回分隔符:

class Separator {

    private final String separator;
    private boolean wasCalled;

    public Separator(String separator) {
        this.separator = separator;
        this.wasCalled = false;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        if (!wasCalled) {
            wasCalled = true;
            return "";
        } else {
            return separator;
        }
    }
}

修正答案Rob Dickerson。

更容易使用:

public static String join(String delimiter, String... values)
{
    StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();

    for (String value : values)
    {
        stringBuilder.append(value);
        stringBuilder.append(delimiter);
    }

    String result = stringBuilder.toString();

    return result.isEmpty() ? result : result.substring(0, result.length() - 1);
}

//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();