Most new Java developers quickly learn that they should generally compare Java Strings using String.equals(Object) rather than using == . This is emphasized and reinforced to new developers ...

Java’s equals() and hashcode() are two methods that work together to verify if two objects have the same value. You can use them to make object comparisons easy and efficient in your Java ...

More to the point, Java 8 is no longer supported by Oracle. Java 11 and Java 17 are the new LTS Java releases. The next LTS release, Java 21, is coming in 10 months. If you are using Java 8, you must ...