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 ...

[gui] java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.awt.Rectangle.equals (Object)" because "this.bounds" is null #2571 Open zxhubo opened 2 days ago ...

We might consider writing a module that adds default implementations of hashCode () and equals (other: any) to Object, and optimized ones to String. At a minimum this might make it easier to write ...