It’s also worth noting that if a class does not override hashCode(), then its own hash code will obviously match that provided by Object. In the example above, the SimpleData class (not shown here) ...

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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 ...