howz this ?

[Rahul Pawar]

public class ObChk
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Ex e1=new Ex(1,2);
Ex e2=new Ex(1,2);
Ex e3=new Ex(4,5);
Ex e4;
e4=e2;
if (e1.equals(e2))
{
System.out.println("e1 and e2 Equal");
}

if (e1.equals(e3))
{
System.out.println("e1 and e3 Equal");
}
if (e2.equals(e4))
{
System.out.println("e2 and e4 Equal");
}
}
}

The above program outputs only
e2 and e4 are equal.
can u tell me y ?
thanks

[Thomas Paul]

The equals method does a straight == compare except in Strings where it was overridden.

[sai challa]

The equals method for class Object implements the most discriminating possible equivalence relation on objects; that is, for any reference values x and y, this method returns true if and only if x and y refer to the same object (x==y has the value true).
In your program you have not over-ridden the equals() method hence the equals() method of the Object class is invoked and since e4 and e2 refer to same Object it returns true.

[This message has been edited by sai challa (edited April 19, 2001).]

[Thomas Paul]

Now you have the short explanation and the long explanation.
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