Why Java does not see that Integers are equal?

Question

I have integers that are supposed to be equal (and I verify it by output). But in my if condition Java does not see these variables to have the same value.

Answer 1

There are two types to distinguish here:

• int, the primitive integer type which you use most of the time, but is not an object type
• Integer, an object wrapper around an int which can be used to use integers in APIs that require objects