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 ...

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( ...

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...

It's not terribly clean, but you could use indexOf() and check if it returns -1. Better than breaking out a loop.