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 ...

In backends that handle billing, discounts, and fees, even when using BigDecimal, bugs such as "amounts are the same but do ...

I’ve used Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) successfully for a wide set of problems and generally really like it. However, it is not without its downsides. One down side that occasionally ...

I have a class, say TextHolder, that overrides Object.equals() to return true if both strings in each object are equal - <tt>new TextHolder("Hello World!").equals(new ...