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 ...

What Java’s equals() method does. The equals() method lets you compare the contents of two objects to see if they are equal. This form of equality is known as content equality.

The required verbosity in the Java language is often referred to as boilerplate code, as the code itself follows a very repeatable and boring form. Goetz's team has taken a targeted look at the ...