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 ...

method provides the hash code of the provided Object as would be returned from its ultimate Object parent regardless of whether the passed-in object overrode the hashCode method . This is demonstrated ...

Java has always been criticized for being too verbose. While that criticism is largely unfounded, language architects and community enthusiasts have always strived to make the language simpler and ...