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 ...

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 ...

This is an example of a scenario where a map is used with a key that is made up of multiple attributes. All Java Collections rely on hashCode and equals methods to look up where a certain object is ...