have you tried:
collection1.equals(collection2)
I think, that was it.
regards,
Christoph Gaffga
cgaffga@triplemind.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcus Crafter" <crafterm@managesoft.com>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.commons.user
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 12:54 PM
Subject: Comparing 2 lists via contents?
> Hi All,
>
> Hope all is going well.
>
> I'm looking for a particular method in List or Collection Utils but
> can't find it, must be going blind! ;)
>
> I've got 2 lists, containing objects that are equal by value but not
> equal by reference (ie. a.equals(b) is true, but a == b is false).
>
> CollectionUtils.isEqualsCollection(Collection, Collection) seems to work
> by comparing whether the objects are equal by reference, ie. whether a
> == b is true.
>
> Is there something similar for comparing the contents of 2 lists by
> value, perhaps somewhere that I've missed?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marcus
>
>
>
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