== operator for primitive data types [duplicate]

Question

Possible Duplicate:
How Does the toString(), ==, equals() object methods work differently or similarly on reference and primitive types?

I am trying to understand the difference between == and equals to operator in Java. e.g. == will check if it is the same object while equals will compare the value of the object ... Then why do we use == for comparing primitive data types like int. Because if I have

   int i =7; //and 
   int j = 6. 

They are not the same object and not the same memory address in stack. Or does the == behaves differently for primitives comparison.??

Answer 1

Actually, == behaves identically for all variables: it tests whether the values of those variables are equal. In the case of Object obj, obj is a reference to an object. Since == tests whether two object references have the same value, it is testing whether they refer to the identical object (i.e., that the references are equal).