object equality

[webslinga]

Hey all,
i am trying to study for my SCJA certification exam and i came upon a question which is confusing and i needed some insight on it. How do you determine the equality of two objects? Are two objects considered equal when their references are pointing to the same type? Or is equality of two objects considered when the fields in an object are the same? Or should be use the equals() method?
Thanks for this.

 

[Diancecht]

Dunno what SCJA is, but this is a fairly basic concept that should be clear for you:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=174371&seqNum=6&rl=1

Btw, there's a Java forum for this questions, this one is intended for J2EE questions.

Cheers,
Dian