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

Since I'm guessing age is of type int:

public boolean equals(Object other){
    boolean result;
    if((other == null) || (getClass() != other.getClass())){
        result = false;
    } // end if
    else{
        People otherPeople = (People)other;
        result = name.equals(otherPeople.name) &&  age == otherPeople.age;
    } // end else

    return result;
} // end equals