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 ...

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

At first glance, there seems to be no relationship between a hash code and the comparison of one long integer to another within an Equals override. But hashes are important to the Equals method ...