Boolean doubt

[Kota li]

public class Boxing6 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Boolean b1 = new Boolean(true);
Boolean b2 = new Boolean(true);
boolean b3 = true;
Boolean b4 = true;
System.out.println(b1==b2);
System.out.println(b1==b3);
System.out.println(b3 == b4);
System.out.println(b1 == b4);
}
}

[Burkhard Hassel]

Howdy!

When you compare two distinct objects with == the result will be always false.

When you compare two primitives, it will be true when the value is the same or false if not.

When you compare an object of a wrapper class with a corresponding primitive, the object will be unboxed and the comparison will be as if both are primitives.

If the wrappers are of type Byte, Short, Character or Integer the story is a bit more complicated, but this is not part of the question.


Note that in the line with b4 a new object is created, just as in the first two lines, only with a different syntax (autoboxing).


Yours,
Bu.

[marc weber]

Originally posted by Burkhard Hassel:
... When you compare two distinct objects with == the result will be always false.

When you compare two primitives, it will be true when the value is the same or false if not...

The way I like to think of this is that == is a comparison of values. For primitives, this is straight forward. For objects, this means a comparison of references, so == will return true only of both operands reference the same object.

Hope that helps.