Hashcode and equals

Question

equals and hashCode method must be consistent, which means that when two objects are equal according to equals method their hash

Answer 1

HashValue and Hashvalue are two different identifiers

if(oo instanceof HashValue) works because your class-name is HashValue not Hashvalue

EDIT :

Your code doesn't work because hh isn't in scope when you are using it.

This works:

/* A program to check hashcode values for object
@Author Myth17
 */

class HashValue 
{

   int x;

   public boolean equals(Object oo)
  {
    HashValue hh=new HashValue();
    if(oo instanceof HashValue) 
       hh = (HashValue)oo;

    if(this.x==hh.x)
      return true;
    else
      return false;
  }

   HashValue()
  {
     x=11;
   }

  }

 class  Hashing
 {
     public static void main(String args[])
    {
       HashValue hv=new HashValue();
       HashValue hv2=new HashValue();

      System.out.println(hv.hashCode());
      System.out.println(hv2.hashCode());

      if(hv.equals(hv2))
        System.out.println("EQUAL");
      else
         System.out.println("NOT EQUAL");
    }
  }