The JPA hashCode() / equals() dilemma

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Read this very nice article on the subject: Don’t Let Hibernate Steal Your Identity.

The conclusion of the article goes like this:

Object identity is deceptively hard to implement correctly when
objects are persisted to a database. However, the problems stem
entirely from allowing objects to exist without an id before they are
saved. We can solve these problems by taking the responsibility of
assigning object IDs away from object-relational mapping frameworks
such as Hibernate. Instead, object IDs can be assigned as soon as the
object is instantiated. This makes object identity simple and
error-free, and reduces the amount of code needed in the domain model.

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