How do I calculate a good hash code for a list of strings?

Question

Background:

• I have a short list of strings.
• The number of strings is not always the same, but are nearly always of the order of a “handful”
• I

Answer 1

You can use the following method to aggregate hash codes: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Objects.html#hash(java.lang.Object...)