Java 7 Objects-Powered Compact Equals. how-to. Jun 23, 2011 5 mins. Core Java. Obi Ezechukwu‘s blog High-Octane Java recently featured the post Compact Equals, which compares an implementation ...

Every Object in Java includes an equals() and a hashcode() method, but they must be overridden to work properly. To understand how overriding works with equals() and hashcode(), we can study their ...

So, we've got a 10-element array, and when we put our first object into that array -- our first name-value pair, 'movie: Shrek'-- we find out that the hashCode for the key 'movie' is 9722. Well, what ...