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.

package dustin.examples; import java.util.Objects; /** * Simple class to be used in demonstration of JDK 7's java.util.Objects class. * * @author Dustin */ public class Person { private String ...