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After kick-starting the Advanced Java course by discussing how to How to create and destroy objects, we are now going to see how to use methods common to all objects.

Methods common to all objects are inherited by the parent Object class. These include the equals and hashCode methods, as well as the toString and equals methods. Additionally, we will discuss the equals and == operator and some helpful helper classes of the new Java 7 Objects class that can be used to do the heavy lifting of our functionality.

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