The hashCode () and equals () methods have been defined in Object class which is parent class for all java classes. For this reason, all java objects inherit a default implementation of these methods.

If you are fortunate enough to be using JDK 7, the newly available Objects class is the obvious (at least to me) choice for implementing the “common” Java object methods such as equals (Object ...

I added this to GitHub purely for reference purposes as these concepts can get blurry after a period of absence from Java. ;) Since the code is not elaborately commented, the concepts might not be ...

Obi Ezechukwu‘s blog High-Octane Java recently featured the post Compact Equals, which compares an implementation of a Java class’s overridden equals method in traditional form versus one ...