ch.panter.li.bi.util
Class CompareTool

java.lang.Object
  ch.panter.li.bi.util.CompareTool

public final class CompareTool
extends Object

Method Summary

static boolean

areEqual(Object left, Object right) Determines whether the two objects are equal, safe to call with any combination of null arguments.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

areEqual

public static boolean areEqual(Object left,
                               Object right)

Determines whether the two objects are equal, safe to call with any combination of null arguments.

Parameters:

left - the first object to compare. may be null.

right - the second object to compare. may be null.

Returns:

true if the two objects reference the same instance, are both null or reference two instances which consider themselves equal as by the contract of Object.equals(). false if one of the two parameters is null while the other isn't or if both are non-null but consider themselves not equal.