Comparing objects

Question

Hi everyone, I'm new with java and I need some help.
When you create a method that compares two objects and it's arguments are of a type of another class, do you have to do some sort of casting if you get a incompatible type error? Is it even possible to cast a String into a another class or vice versa. Heres the code I have so far
class Object{
  String Object;
public class Equals  {
public static Object object(Object zero1, Object zero2) {
     zero1 = "hello";       
        zero2 = str1;
        System.out.println("Same object? " + (zero1 == zero2));
}The error I get is at
zero 1 = "hello";
^
It says it found a String but was looking for Object
Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

This code
public static Object object(Object zero1, Object zero2) {     
     zero1 = "hello";       
        zero2 = str1;
        System.out.println("Same object? " + (zero1 == zero2));Makes about zero sense.
You get some parameters and immediately re-assign them. Not promising. You then seem to be making the very common rookie error of trying to compare for equality using == instead of the equals method.
Please review the basic Java tutorial found [_here_|http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/index.html] That indicates you're missing some basic fundamentals.