Share Your Conscience

 Here we describe difference between (==) and .equals() :- Both of them very much  differ  in their significance and working as equals() method is present in the java.lang.Object class and it is expected to check for the equivalence of the state of objects! That means, the contents of the objects. Whereas the '==' operator is expected to check the actual object instances are same or not. Let us see an example we have two String objects and they are being pointed by two different reference variables as a1 and a2. a1 = new String("xyz"); a2 = new String("xyz"); Now, if you use the "equals()" method to check for their equivalence as if(a1.equals(a2)) System.out.println("a1.equals(a2) is TRUE"); else System.out.println("a1.equals(a2) is FALSE"); You will get the output as TRUE as the 'equals()' method check for the content equivality. Lets check the '==' operator.. if(s