Why are these == but not `equals()`?

Question

I\'m a bit confused about the way Java treats == and equals() when it comes to int, Integer and other types of numbers.

Answer 1

The morale of the story:

Autoboxing/unboxing is confusing, as is type promotion. Together, they make for good riddles but horrendous code.

In practice, it seldom makes sense to use numeric types smaller than int, and I'm almost inclined to configure my eclipse compiler to flag all autoboxing and -unboxing as an error.