Implementing the equals method in java

Question

This is my implementation of the equals class for a Coor class which is just contains 2 ints x and y. would this be the proper way of implementing this method?

Answer 1

Check this out:

http://www.javapractices.com/topic/TopicAction.do?Id=17

If that article is too much detail, then the short of it is: Your implementation is correct, but you should keep some other things in mind:

1. You will also have to implement hashCode.

2. equals will no longer commpare the object's identity. Doesn't sound like that's a problem for you.

3. You could add the @Override annotation to your equals method.