Having problems with a boolean expression

Question

i have the following:
the problem is no matter if i try "equal" or "==" the return string it always returns false!! just to make a little more obvious:
if (1>1 == false)
is true therefore retrieveData should return NOT_LOGGED_IN and i have confirmed this and it does yet if (servletString.equals("NOT_LOGGED_IN"))
does not agree with me.
Any ideas?!
     private void doAuthenticate(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
          username = request.getParameter("username");
          password = request.getParameter("password");
        try {     
     Customer customer = new Customer();
          System.out.println(1>1);
               if (1>1 == false)
               processResponse(response, "NOT_LOGGED_IN");
          } else {
               System.out.println("You're logged in.");
               response.setContentType("text/html");
        } catch (Exception e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
  public void doValidateUser()
          System.out.println(userNameTextField.getString());
          try {
               HttpConnection hc = getConnection("?blah");
             hc.setRequestMethod( HttpConnection.GET );
             hc.setRequestProperty("User-Agent","Profile/MIDP-1.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.0" );
             hc.setRequestProperty("Content-Language", "en-US" );
             hc.setRequestProperty("Accept", "text/plain" );
             sendData(hc);
             String servletString = receiveData(hc);
             System.out.println("servletString="+ servletString);
             System.out.println("servletString.size="+ servletString.length());
             if (servletString.equals("NOT_LOGGED_IN"))
                    //                  something..
             else {
                 //something else
          catch (Exception e)
               System.out.println(e);
    }and this:
  private String receiveData(HttpConnection connection) throws IOException {
         int rc = connection.getResponseCode();
         StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
         DataInputStream is = connection.openDataInputStream();
         String dataIn = null;
         try {
              if (rc == HttpConnection.HTTP_OK) {
                   int c;
                   while (( c = is.read()) != -1)
                        sb.append((char)c);
                   dataIn = sb.toString();
                   System.out.println(String.valueOf(rc));
                   System.out.println(dataIn);
                   is.close();
              } else if (rc == HttpConnection.HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED) {
                   int contentLength = (int)connection.getLength();
                   byte[] raw = new byte[contentLength];
                   int length = is.read(raw);
                   String s = new String(raw, 0, length);
                   stringItem.setText(s);
         } catch (IOException ioe) {
              stringItem.setText(ioe.toString());
         return dataIn;
    }

Answer 1

I still couldn't figure it out guys.
processResponse:
     private void processResponse(HttpServletResponse response, String output)
     throws IOException, ServletException {
               response.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8");
               PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
               out.println(output);
     }simply prints out whatever i pass it.
in the recieveData code i placed:
System.out.println("dataIn.equals" + dataIn); just before the return dataIn line and it prints
dataIn.equalsNOT_LOGGED_IN
and here is where i use it:
String servletString = receiveData(hc);if (servletString.equals("NOT_LOGGED_IN"))
     tryAgain();
it never equals NOT_LOGGED_IN for some reason!!
i even printed what servletString equals:
servletString.equalsNOT_LOGGED_IN
before the if statement
  System.out.println("servletString.equals" + servletString);
             if (servletString.equals("NOT_LOGGED_IN"))
                  System.out.println("Blah!");
             }blah is never printed!! :\