Equality between 2 HashMap

Question

In the equals() method of my class, I am using a private instance HashMap variable to compare for the equality. However, 2 different objects still show being equal when comp

Answer 1

The article is right. Hashmaps can be safely compared using the equals() method as long as the key objects and value objects are possible to compare using the same method. In the article, the map values are arrays, which do not implement equals() as expected. Using ArrayList instead would have solved the problem.