I'm currently beating my head against the following problem, and I could use a point in the right direction.<BR><BR>For my current task, I'm required to generate an implementation for clone(), equals( ...

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) ...

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 ...