public class Object

Class Object is the root of the Java Card platform class hierarchy. Every class has Object as a superclass. All objects, including arrays, implement the methods of this class. This Java Card platform class's functionality is a strict subset of the definition in the Java^TM 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE^TM) API Specification.

public Object()

public boolean equals(Object  obj)

Compares two Objects for equality. The equals method implements an equivalence relation:

• It is
• reflexive

: for any reference value x, x.equals(x) should return true.

• It is
• symmetric

: for any reference values x and y, x.equals(y) should return true if and only if y.equals(x) returns true.

• It is
• transitive

: for any reference values x, y, and z, if x.equals(y) returnstrue and y.equals(z) returns true, then x.equals(z) should return true.

• It is
• consistent

: for any reference values x and y, multiple invocations of x.equals(y) consistently return true or consistently return false.

• For any reference value x, x.equals(null) should return false.

The equals method for class Object implements the most discriminating possible equivalence relation on objects; that is, for any reference values x and y, this method returns true if and only if x and y refer to the same object (x==y has the value true).

Parameters:obj - the reference object with which to compare.

Returns:true if this object is the same as the obj argument; false otherwise.