If you are fortunate enough to be using JDK 7, the newly available Objects class is the obvious (at least to me) choice for implementing the “common” Java object methods such as equals (Object ...

This tutorial explains how a Java HashMap works internally and explores the challenges of implementing it, including buckets, collisions and hash codes.

Even beginning Java developers are aware of the utility of the Object.toString() method that is available to all instances of Java classes and can be overridden to provide useful details regarding ...