In addition to serving the means of communication among professionals, programming idioms are also proven programming solutions and common practices that are not directly derived from the language specification, but born out of the programming experience. In this section, we are going to discuss the ones that are used most often. You can find and study the full list of idioms in the official Java documentation (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial).
Java idioms, their implementation, and their usage
The equals() and hashCode() methods
The default implementation of the equals() and hashCode() methods in the java.lang.Object class looks as follows:
public boolean equals(Object obj) {
return (this == obj);
}
/**
* Whenever...
