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debugging through Java

Chased a bug down today, a simple one really. But first I had to load in the source code for the hibernate persistence (i was trekking through PersistentSet). Then I had to dig up the Java 1.5 (5.0?) source from the Apple developer site so I could chase through AbstractCollection and HashSet to find out one of my equals() methods was being a very bad boy (always returning false).

Changed one line of code from that three hours of work. That’s how the code flows.

return true;