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 ...

I have a class, say TextHolder, that overrides Object.equals() to return true if both strings in each object are equal - <tt>new TextHolder("Hello World!").equals(new ...

I previously blogged on the Apache Commons ToStringBuilder and discussed how it takes away much of the tedium normally associated with implementing toString methods. While implementing toString() does ...