Weird Integer boxing in Java

Question

I just saw code similar to this:

public class Scratch
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        Integer a = 1000, b = 1000;
        System.o         


        

Answer 1

That is an interesting point. In the book Effective Java suggests always to override equals for your own classes. Also that, to check equality for two object instances of a java class always use the equals method.

public class Scratch
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        Integer a = 1000, b = 1000;
        System.out.println(a.equals(b));

        Integer c = 100, d = 100;
        System.out.println(c.equals(d));
    }
}

returns:

true
true