There has been quite a bit of talk about this in the forums, and once you move to MyEclipse 5.0 on the Eclipse 3.2 paltform you will be able to right click and generate those two methods using properties of the class. We don’t generate them now by default because it is infact VERY complicated to generate correct implementations of those methods and they should be based on only static unchanging values, which POJOs are almost entirely *not*
For more info, check this out:
http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/m91993744.html