Java/jsp help.

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I'm trying to run this simple code which checks if a password exists in an xml user file.

for (int y = 0; y < passwords.getLength(); y++) {
	if (password == passwords.item(y).getTextContent()) {
		out.println("yes");
	}	
}

But everytime I run this nothing prints out on the web page! I have no problem using the .getTextContent to print out a list of all users passwords, but this comparison statement never evaluates to true for some reason, using .equals() even gives me a nullpointer exception!

 

[Energize]

I found out why I was getting a null pointer exception when using .equals(), I had given the password textbox the wrong id.