What is the difference == and equals() in Java?

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Is there any difference between == and equals() in Java? How to compare enum?
Jun 5, 2018 in Java by Daisy
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Both the answers (Syntaxes) are correct. If you look at the source code for .equals(), it simply defers to ==.

I use ==, because it is null safe.
answered Jun 5, 2018 by Akrati
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