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“equals”

Feb
16
2010

Google Objects.equal, useful but be careful.

Google have a nice equals method to make boiler plate equals easier to read. Particularly good if you have many attributes in the method. http://publicobject.com/2007/09/coding-in-small-with-google-collections_8175.html
Be careful to check that your objects are consistent with equals though.  I have mentioned this before.

Oct
31
2009

Neat multiset in google collections API

This good thing was so small that I almost did not bother to blog it
But the devil is in the detail so here it is anyway.
I have this multi threaded application. One of the problems with integration testing it is, you can’t guarantee the order that messages will be written to a stream. [...]

Oct
24
2009

Testing java equals and hashcode methods

Equals and hashcode bugs can be difficult to track down. So why not test them? This blog shows how easy it is to code some tests

Oct
24
2009

IDE Generation of equals methods has its moments

This blog entry looks at the code generated by Eclipse and Netbeans and demonstrates why its a good idea to both test the code and review it thoroughly.