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 ...

Java collections like `HashMap`, `HashSet`, `Hashtable` use `hashCode()` to **find or store objects quickly**. If you override `equals()`, you **must also override `hashCode()`** to ensure the object ...

The goal here is to take care of the boilerplate code to avoid debugging your input parser while you should be focusing on solving the problem at hand. You can find examples of usage of this library ...