Is there a simpler way to derefence nullable references in Java?

Question

Consider the following Code Snippet:

if (foo != null
 && foo.bar != null
 && foo.bar.boo != null
 && foo.bar.boo.far != null)
{
    doSomething (foo.bar.boo.far);
}

My question is simple: is there a more simple\shorter way to do this ?

In detail: is there a more simple way to validate each part of the chain, I'd imagine similar to this ..

if (validate("foo.bar.boo.far"))
{
    doSomething (foo.bar.boo.far);
}

Answer 1

Maybe like that ?

if (FooUtils.isFarNotEmpty(foo)){
    doSomething (foo.bar.boo.far);
}

and in FooUtils :

boolean isFarNotEmpty (Foo foo){
   return foo != null && 
          foo.bar != null && 
          foo.bar.boo != null && 
          foo.bar.boo.far != null;
}

Answer 2

In my opinion this expression is perfect, nothing can be simpler