I previously blogged on the Apache Commons ToStringBuilder and discussed how it takes away much of the tedium normally associated with implementing toString methods. While implementing toString() does ...

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 implemented ...

Let's say I have a class that encapsulates 2 other objects (Strings in my case, but could be anything). I want to override equals() and hashCode(), such that any 2 objects of my class with equal ...

I have a class, say TextHolder, that overrides Object.equals() to return true if both strings in each object are equal - <tt>new TextHolder("Hello World!").equals(new ...