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1. Override equals and hashCode just to call super.equals/hashCode or throw AssertionError?    stackoverflow.com

is there a best practice, when to override equals? Should I override equals/hashCode and throw an AssertionError? Just to be sure nobody uses that? (as recommended in the book Effective Java) Should I ...

2. Override equal's and hashCode for abstract super class    stackoverflow.com

Consider the sample code given below: Abstract Name

public abstract class Name {
    private String name;
 public Name(String name)
 {
  this.name=name;
 }
 public String toString()
 {
  return name;

 ...

3. Un-overiding hashCode    stackoverflow.com

I have the following situation: I have many BSTs, and I want to merge isomorphic subtrees to save space. I am hashing Binary Search Tree nodes into a "unique table" - basically ...

4. right way to incorporate superclass into a Guava Objects.hashcode() implementation?    stackoverflow.com

Possibly a dumb question, but I don't want to screw this up. Let's say I have two Java classes, Class1 and Class2, where Class2 extends Class1. I want to ...