How to get the unique ID of an object which overrides hashCode()?

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System.identityHashCode(yourObject) will give the ‘original’ hash code of yourObject as an integer. Uniqueness isn’t necessarily guaranteed. The Sun JVM implementation will give you a value which is related to the original memory address for this object, but that’s an implementation detail and you shouldn’t rely on it.

EDIT: Answer modified following Tom’s comment below re. memory addresses and moving objects.

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