Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Copyright 2005-2015 The Kuali Foundation * * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ import java.util.Collection; public class Main { /** * Performs a "brute force" comparison of collections by testing whether the collections contain * each other. This circumvents any particular uniqueness or ordering constraints on the * collections (for instance, lists that are unordered but contain the same elements, where a * hashset would not suffice for comparison purposes because it enforces element uniqueness) */ public static boolean collectionsEquivalent(Collection<?> a, Collection<?> b) { if (a == null && b == null) { return true; } if (a == null ^ b == null) { return false; } return a.containsAll(b) && b.containsAll(a); } }