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 ...

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 ...

Let's say I have a class that encapsulates 2 other objects (Strings in my case, but could be anything). I want to override equals() and hashCode(), such that any 2 objects of my class with equal ...