instanceof operator and equals method

I always based my equals implementation on the code written in the String class.

Contract First web service with CXF

In the post on Spring web services, I had used a contract first approach for development. This being the only style supported by Spring.
JAX-WS and also CXF on the other hand support both code first and contact first approaches.
I decided to use the same wsdl file from my Spring post:

Building Clients with the CXF API

In the previous posts we saw how to run a CXF application and test the web services using a JAX-WS client. While our previous client was built using classes from the JAX-WS API, there are other ways to execute the code too.

Simple Annotated Entity

In an earlier post when working with Hibernate I tried to generate an hbm with minimal content. I decided to try something similar with JPA. The minimum annotations needed to work with a simple table.

Sorting enums in java

Consider the below code:
I have defined a simple enum: