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( ...

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 ...

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.