What's the difference between “.equals” and “==”? [duplicate]

Answer 1

public static void main(String[] args){
        String s1 = new String("hello");
        String s2 = new String("hello");

        System.out.println(s1.equals(s2));
        ////
        System.out.println(s1 == s2);

    System.out.println("-----------------------------");

        String s3 = "hello";
        String s4 = "hello";

        System.out.println(s3.equals(s4));
        ////
        System.out.println(s3 == s4);
    }

Here in this code u can campare the both '==' and '.equals'

here .equals is used to compare the reference objects and '==' is used to compare state of objects..