public static String[] findAvialable(int startValue, int endValue, String[] usedValues) {
    ArrayList values = new ArrayList();
    int total = endValue - startValue + 1;
    for (int i = 0; i < total; i++) {
      int currentValue = startValue + i;
      boolean used = false;
      for (int j = 0; j < usedValues.length; j++) {
        if (Integer.parseInt(usedValues[j]) == currentValue) {
          used = true;
          break;
        }
      }
      if (!used) {
        values.add(new Integer(currentValue));
      }
    }
    String[] result = new String[values.size()];
    for (int i = 0; i < result.length; i++) {
      result[i] = ((Integer)values.get(i)).toString();
    }
    return result;
}

  /**
   * Returns a string array consisting of all the integer values between two points
   * whose string representation is not in usedValues.
   *
   * @param startValue int The minimum allowed value (inclusive).
   * @param endValue int The maximum allowed valued (inclusive).
   * @param usedValues String[] The String representation of the used integers, or null.
   * @return String[] The String representation of the available integers.
   */
  public static String[] findAvialable(final int startValue, final int endValue,
                                       final String[] usedValues) {
    // Validate some assumptions
    if (startValue > endValue) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Cannot have a start value greater than the end value");
    }
 
    // Cache a repeatedly calculated value
    final int length = endValue - startValue + 1;
 
    // Handle a simple case
    if (usedValues == null || usedValues.length == 0) {
      final List out = new ArrayList(length);
      for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
        out.add(Integer.toString(startValue + i));
      }
      return (String[])out.toArray(ArrayUtils.EMPTY_STRING_ARRAY);
    }
 
    // Validate usedValues for the complicated case
    if (Arrays.asList(usedValues).contains(null)) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Used values may be null, but may not contain null");
    }
 
    // Create a set of used values as Integers.
    final Set used = SetUtils.transformedSet(new HashSet(length), new Transformer() {
      public Object transform(final Object object) {
        return new Integer(Integer.parseInt(object.toString()));
      }
    });
 
    // Add all the used values
    used.addAll(Arrays.asList(usedValues));
 
    // Create a list of values we can use
    final List avail = ListUtils.transformedList(new ArrayList(length),
                                                 TransformerUtils.stringValueTransformer());
 
    // Add those possible start values that
    for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
      final Integer iObj = new Integer(startValue + i);
      if (!used.contains(iObj)) {
        avail.add(iObj);
      }
    }
 
    return (String[])avail.toArray(ArrayUtils.EMPTY_STRING_ARRAY);
  }