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Apache Commons Lang, a package of Java utility classes for the classes that are in java.lang's hierarchy, or are considered to be so standard as to justify existence in java.lang. for jdk 1.5

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package org.apache.commons.lang3.mutable;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * A mutable Object wrapper.
 * 
 * @param  the type to set and get 
 * @since 2.1
 * @version $Id: MutableObject.java 1562971 2014-01-30 21:23:18Z ggregory $
 */
public class MutableObject implements Mutable, Serializable {

    /**
     * Required for serialization support.
     * 
     * @see java.io.Serializable
     */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 86241875189L;

    /** The mutable value. */
    private T value;

    /**
     * Constructs a new MutableObject with the default value of null.
     */
    public MutableObject() {
        super();
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a new MutableObject with the specified value.
     * 
     * @param value  the initial value to store
     */
    public MutableObject(final T value) {
        super();
        this.value = value;
    }

    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------
    /**
     * Gets the value.
     * 
     * @return the value, may be null
     */
    @Override
    public T getValue() {
        return this.value;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the value.
     * 
     * @param value  the value to set
     */
    @Override
    public void setValue(final T value) {
        this.value = value;
    }

    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------
    /**
     * 
     * Compares this object against the specified object. The result is true if and only if the argument
     * is not null and is a MutableObject object that contains the same T
     * value as this object.
     * 
     * 
     * @param obj  the object to compare with, null returns false
     * @return  true if the objects are the same;
     *          true if the objects have equivalent value fields;
     *          false otherwise.
     */
    @Override
    public boolean equals(final Object obj) {
        if (obj == null) {
            return false;
        }
        if (this == obj) {
            return true;
        }
        if (this.getClass() == obj.getClass()) {
            final MutableObject that = (MutableObject) obj;
            return this.value.equals(that.value);
        }
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the value's hash code or 0 if the value is null.
     * 
     * @return the value's hash code or 0 if the value is null.
     */
    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return value == null ? 0 : value.hashCode();
    }

    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------
    /**
     * Returns the String value of this mutable.
     * 
     * @return the mutable value as a string
     */
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return value == null ? "null" : value.toString();
    }

}