Ok,

I have searched through tons of posts dating back to 2004 on the issue of overriding the .equals() method. I was wondering what the best way to override the .equals() method is today? My situation is that my entity classes are at times proxy instances so I know that I can't use the normal "if (getClass() != obj.getClass())" method since a proxy instance will always fail this check.

What is the general approach for comparing normal entity objects that may be proxies?

Thanks,

Marty

Hi Marty,

Try checking this article http://community.jboss.org/wiki/EqualsAndHashcode.

also there is a link to another article from website onjava.com.

Hope that helps.