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 ...

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 ...

I'm currently beating my head against the following problem, and I could use a point in the right direction.For my current task, I'm required to generate an implementation for clone(), equals ...