Peter Becker

Peter Becker works as a consultant for iteratec GmbH in Munich, Germany. After coding in Basic V2 and C++ for a few years he started using Java in 2001 while working for an Australian research institute, starting a few Java-based OpenSource projects during the following years before going back to the real world.

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You Are What You Is: Defining Object Identity
Even when you know the difference between == and .equals(), that's not the end of the story of object identity in Java. Lots of common-sense assumptions are rife with unpredictable side effects, and in this article Peter Becker takes a new look at just what equality means. Jul. 27, 2006

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