How to check if String value is Boolean type in Java?

• parseBoolean(String) returns true if the String is (case-insensitive) “true”, otherwise false
• valueOf(String) ditto, returns the canonical Boolean Objects
• getBoolean(String) is a red herring; it fetches the System property of the given name and compares that to “true”

There exists no method to test whether a String encodes a Boolean; for all practical effects, any non-“true”-String is “false”.