How to override equals method in Java

Question

I am trying to override equals method in Java. I have a class People which basically has 2 data fields name and age. Now I want to ove

Answer 1

Introducing a new method signature that changes the parameter types is called overloading:

public boolean equals(People other){

Here People is different than Object.

When a method signature remains the identical to that of its superclass, it is called overriding and the @Override annotation helps distinguish the two at compile-time:

@Override
public boolean equals(Object other){

Without seeing the actual declaration of age, it is difficult to say why the error appears.