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 implemented ...
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 ...
Method overriding is a fundamental concept in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) that enables a subclass to provide a specific implementation of a method that is already defined in its superclass. It ...
Ok, I have a pair class (same one mentioned in earlier thread) that I am inserting into a LinkedHashSet. LHSs cannot have duplicate values and I'm assuming that it tests equality by calling the equals ...