The only thing that’s not so nice is the need to explicitly scope Guava’s Objects class in the code to avoid a naming collision with Java SE 7’s Objects class.

I am using this blog post to build upon these examples to demonstrate the utility of Java 7’s Objects.equals(Object, Object) method and will demonstrate the usefulness of Objects.hash(Object ...

The toString method for class Object returns a string consisting of the name of the class of which the object is an instance, the at-sign character '@', and the unsigned hexadecimal representation of ...

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Use Arrays.equals in equals method for an String[] member (see code example at to bottom) 2. Use JDK1.8 (do not know if this also happens with JDK1.7). What ...

So, I've overridden the equals method as well, and I just put a printout in there saying, 'Calling the equals method' and what object we're calling the equals method for. And then we just do the ...