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Hi All,

I am not understandng thic concept. Why it is giving "False" as result.
This code is from Thinking in Java.

In the same code if i remove static from this code it is giving me error message. Please explain this concept also.

static Test monitor = new Test();





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Mubeen Shaik.
 
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Hi,

I think i have posted this in wrong place. Could you please move this to Java Intemediate forum.


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As the book says, the default behavior of the equals() method is to compare references. v1 and v2 are referencing different objects.

equals is inherited from Object and if you want to tell the method to compare values, then you have to override (write your own method of the same name with the same arguments) with something like:

[ May 19, 2004: Message edited by: Tim McGuire ]
 
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public boolean equals(Value v){

A small but important correction: the signature of the equals() method is public boolean equals(Object o). In the form quoted above, the equals() method is overloaded, not overriden. As a result, you will see some strange effects. For example:

 
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ooops!
thanks for pointing that out.
 
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Hi Eugene,

I am confused here, then how to Override the method?

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overload:

overwrite:
 
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Or simply
 
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And don't forget to override hashcode method if you override equals.

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So, getting equals() right and overriding the hashCode() method could look like this?:

 
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Tim -- yes, that looks better. The hashCode() method could be simplified, though:



Also, a better test would be:


There is much more to equals() and hashCode(). The best reference on this subject (and many others) is Effective Java
[ May 21, 2004: Message edited by: Eugene Kononov ]
 
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