Java autoboxing rules

Question

I am a java novice and so confused by the following example. Is it okay to think that \"==\" sign will compare the values between Integers and \"autoboxed\" Integer

Answer 1

== can only be used for checking if the variables are equal or not if the variables are primitive types. For object variables, == is used to compare the reference of the objects. If you want to compare the values of the objects, use .equals() method.