Usually I base quick equality checks on the feature ID; my guess is the 
equals method is strict because it is/was used to detect if a change 
needs to be written out to disk.

Jody
> Hello everyone, I have a question:
>
> Why does the DefaultFeature equals method only accept features where all 
> attribute values are equal to the corresponding attribute in the feature 
> called on? Seems very strict to me, why not accept all features of the 
> same type and with the same ID?
>
> This behavior is causing some problems for us. First because it is quite 
> slow, and second because use of the JTS Quadtree becomes complicated 
> (cannot remove a feature in the quadtree using a different feature 
> instance with the same type and id but possibly with different (null) 
> attributes).
>
> Regards,
> Erik Loevlie
>
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