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From: Tom Scavo <>
To: OpenSAML <>
Subject: SAMLObject.equals
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:14:05 -0500
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At the risk of beating a dead horse, the following ACM paper shows how
to override Object.equals in a template class T (analogous to
SAMLObject):

http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/620000/611987/p278-stevenson.pdf?key1=611987&key2=7666877311&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=62979474&CFTOKEN=91802265

The approach is completely general and allows subclasses of T (such as
SAMLNameIdentifier and its subclasses) to implement their own (local)
notion of 'equals'. As a bonus, the paper also shows how to do the
same thing in C++.

Tom

SAMLObject.equals, Tom Scavo, 01/20/2006
- Re: SAMLObject.equals, Tom Scavo, 01/21/2006