Java hashCode () and equals () Methods ==================================== The hashCode () and equals () methods have been defined in Object class which is parent class for all java classes. For this ...

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 methods such as equals (Object ...

Now, that gets very, very interesting because it, uh, requires a bit of knowledge of the hashCode method, and it also requires a little bit of knowledge of the equals method.

Equals and hashcode implementation in wrapper classes Wrapper classes override the equals() method to perform value-based comparisons rather than the reference comparison used by Object.equals().

The PathPatternRequestMatcher has been introduced since spring security 6.5. However the equals() method only takes into account the pattern, while extra criteria exists like method, servlet path.