Howdy, >for some time. Mainly, getting rid of the overriding of the equals() >method >to determing if 2 instances of a plugin are equivalent. Doing this is not >so great and has implications to override hashCode(), which requires a lot >more work than it was worth. There is now an isEquivalent() method in the >Plugin interface that can be implemented to determine, to the degree the
I agree about overriding equals/hashCode, but there is an approaches that might be better than what you've done: Implement Comparable, i.e. the compareTo method. This is the standard thing to do when you want to compare things and not implement equals. You can keep ifEquivalent if you'd like and have it do compareTo() == 0. Implementing Comparable has other freebie benefits, from everything in java that can handle an array or collection of Comparable objects: sorting, searching, eliminating duplicates, etc. That said, the above is general: I haven't look at the plugin case specifically. Yoav Shapira This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
