Doubt in hashcode

[sivakumar panchu]

Hi,

Read the code,

public static void main(String[] args) {
String siva=new String("sivakumar");
String siva2=new String("sivakumar");
String siva1="sivakumar";
String siva3="sivakumar";
System.out.println(siva.hashCode());
System.out.println(siva1.hashCode());
System.out.println(siva == siva1);
System.out.println(siva == siva2);
System.out.println(siva1 == siva3);

}

The output is:

1138315475
1138315475
false
false
true


My doubt is, == method check the hashcode and return true if two hashcode has the same value but the above code return false why?

Please answer my question clearly

[Burkhard Hassel]

hashCode has nothing to do with ==
hashCode has something to do with .equals()

Yours,
Bu.