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 * Copyright (c) 2006 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 ******************************************************************************/

package org.eclipse.core.internal.databinding;

/**
 * @since 3.3
 * 
 */
public class Util {

	/**
	 * Checks whether the two objects are <code>null</code> -- allowing for
	 * <code>null</code>.
	 * 
	 * @param left
	 *            The left object to compare; may be <code>null</code>.
	 * @param right
	 *            The right object to compare; may be <code>null</code>.
	 * @return <code>true</code> if the two objects are equivalent;
	 *         <code>false</code> otherwise.
	 */
	public static final boolean equals(final Object left, final Object right) {
		return left == null ? right == null : ((right != null) && left
				.equals(right));
	}
}