Getting same result for both == and equals();

Question

please tell me why I'm getting "true" for both of these situations

public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String a1 = "jina";
String a2 = "jina";

System.out.println(a1==a2);
System.out.println(a1.equals(a2));
}

}

Answer 1

Strings in java are objects, so when comparing with ==, you are comparing references, rather than values. The correct way is to use equals().

Using == is true. Because the JVM has a table of String constants. So whenever you use string literals (quotes "), the virtual machine returns the same objects

@Stack overflow

Answer 2

some interesting explanation in the following page:

focus on the answer which starts with:
"Difference between == and equals confused me for sometime until I decided to have a closer look at it. ....."

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7520432/what-is-the-difference-between-vs-equals-in-java