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Title:	MET08-J. Preserve the equality contract when overriding the equals() method
Author:	Dhruv Mohindra	Jul 18, 2008
Last Changed by:	David Svoboda	Aug 06, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/AzZGBQ
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SEI CERT Oracle Coding Standard for Java (1)     Page: EXP04-J. Do not pass arguments to certain Java Collections Framework methods that are a different type than the collection parameter type

Parent Page     Page: Rule 06. Methods (MET)

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    https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/proper-inheritance
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_Transactions_on_Programmi…
    https://rules.sonarsource.com/java/RSPEC-2162
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript
    reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/1999/CMU-CS-99-156.ps
    java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/security/crypto…
    cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/697.html
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://doi.org/10.1145%2F197320.197383
    cwe.mitre.org/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Wing
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…

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