Follow a canonical form

Canonical form is a practice that conforms to established principles learned only through practice, apprenticeship, and interaction with experts. This means when creating a class for general-purpose use, you must include definitions for "equals( )," "hashCode( )," "toString( )," "clone( )" and (implement "Cloneable"). Then implement "Comparable" and "Serializable."



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Follow the Sun coding conventions Use "get," "set," and "is"
Standardize! Make iterative testing of classes easy
Follow standard capitalization rules Avoid inheritance
Don't create your own "decorated" private data member names Don't overuse finalization
Follow a canonical form Use nested classes

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