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 ...

It's not terribly clean, but you could use indexOf() and check if it returns -1. Better than breaking out a loop.

Have you ever wondered how Java seamlessly combines its primitive data types with object-oriented programming? Enter wrapper classes, an important but often overlooked Java feature. These special ...

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 ...