Java’s equals() and hashcode() are two methods that work together to verify if two objects have the same value. You can use them to make object comparisons easy and efficient in your Java programs. In ...

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

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 ...