[Solved] Object comparison using == operator in Java

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You are right about the fact that == compares the references of the two variables, but, references are not the same as hash codes.

Hash codes are numbers returned by this method that you’ve written:

@Override
public int hashCode() {
    final int prime = 31;
    int result = 1;
    result = prime * result + id;
    result = prime * result + ((name == null) ? 0 : name.hashCode());
    return result;
}

While references are memory locations at which the objects are stored. They are completely different.

It is understandable that you have this misconception. If you did not override hashCode, it would have returned the memory location of the object, so the hash code would have been the same as the memory location. However, since you have overridden hashCode, they are not the same any more.

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