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 ...

See Comparing Java objects with equals () and hashcode () for more about these methods. The equals() method first verifies that an Employee object has been passed.

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 ...