If you are fortunate enough to be using JDK 7, the newly available Objects class is the obvious (at least to me) choice for implementing the “common” Java object methods such as equals (Object ...

When overriding equals(), it’s common practice to also override the hashCode() method. See Comparing Java objects with equals () and hashcode () for more about these methods.

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