Making a program to detect a palindrome

Question

For my class I have to make a program that will detect whether or not a word is a palindrome. Here's what I have right now:
import java.io.*;*
*import java.util.*;
public class Tester
        public static void main(String args[])
                 Scanner f = new Scanner(System.in);
                 System.out.print("Enter a word. ");
                 String word = f.nextLine();
                 char reverse=0, pali=0;                
                 int j, r;
                 for(j = word.length()-1; j>=0; j--)
                    reverse = word.charAt(j);      //To print the string backwards
                    for(r = 0; r <= word.length()-1; r++)
                        pali = word.charAt(r);     //Printing the string normally                     
                        if(pali!=reverse) 
                            System.out.println(word + " is not a palindrome.");
                            break;
                        else if(pali == reverse)
                        System.out.println(word + " is a palindrome.");                       
}So basically what I'm trying to do there is to have one loop print each character backwards and a loop inside of that print each character forwards, and inside of the second loop I check to see whether the characters are identical, and if they are not, the word isn't a palindrome. It makes sense to me, but the output looks like this, using racecar as an example:
Enter a word. racecar
racecar is a palindrome.
racecar is not a palindrome.
racecar is not a palindrome.
racecar is not a palindrome.
racecar is not a palindrome.
racecar is not a palindrome.
racecar is not a palindrome.
racecar is a palindrome.
racecar is not a palindrome.I understand why it prints that many times, because it's still iterating inside the first loop, but I have no idea how break the first loop. Also, clearly, it just doesn't work... any tips?
All help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply.
I'm not sure if I got exactly what you meant, but here's how I understood it:
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class Palindrome
        public static void main(String args[])
                 Scanner f = new Scanner(System.in);
                 System.out.print("Enter a word. ");
                 String word = f.nextLine();
                 boolean b = true;
                 char pali = 0, reverse = 0;
                 int j, r;
                 j = word.length()-1;
                 r = 0;
                 while(j!=r)
                        pali = word.charAt(r);
                        reverse = word.charAt(j);
                        if(pali!=reverse)
                                    b = false;
                                    break;
                        else
                                b = true;
                                r++;
                                j--;
             if(b)
             System.out.println(word + " is a palindrome.");
             else
             System.out.println(word + " is not a palindrome.");
    }I made a mistake somewhere, because when I input a palindrome it might say that it is a palindrome(more than once for some reason), but if I input a non-palindrome it doesn't respond at all. No idea why, because I have an "else" statement that should make it do so...
So where did I go wrong?