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 ...

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 ...