I was mostly joking when I wrote the parent comment. I've read Joshua Block's Effective Java which spends a long time discussing the challenges of properly impl

I was mostly joking when I wrote the parent comment. I've read Joshua Block's Effective Java which spends a long time discussing the challenges of properly implementing equals. Generally speaking, Eclipse gets it correct. Implementing equals properly boils down to following a set of rules - something that computers are exceptionally good at.