Java’s equals() and hashcode() are two methods that work together to verify if two objects have the same value. You can use ...

Whenever it is invoked on the same object more than once during an execution of a Java application, the hashCode method must consistently return the same integer, provided no information used in ...

If you are fortunate enough to be using JDK 7, the newly available Objects class is the obvious (at least to me) choice for ...

But fails to compile to Java - I guess the field name needs to be escaped if you have a hashCode that does not return an integer.