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 ...

package dustin.examples; import java.util.Calendar; /** * Simple employee class using NetBeans-generated 'common' methods * implementations that are typical of many such implementations created ...

However, the Java Platform provides a data structure that greatly simplifies the use of reference objects like this, called the java.util.WeakHashMap class. WeakHashMap works exactly like a hash ...