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.

Java’s equals() and hashcode() are two methods that work together to verify if two objects have the same value. You can use them to make object comparisons easy and efficient in your Java ...

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 ...