Here you can find the source of equals(byte[] first, byte[] second)
public static boolean equals(byte[] first, byte[] second)
//package com.java2s; /*// ww w . ja va2 s. c om * JacORB - a free Java ORB * * Copyright (C) 1997-2014 Gerald Brose / The JacORB Team. * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Library General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free * Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ import java.util.Arrays; public class Main { public static boolean equals(byte[] first, byte[] second) { return Arrays.equals(first, second); } /** * compares first len bytes of two byte arrays */ public static boolean equals(byte[] first, byte[] second, int len) { if (first == second) { return true; } if (first.length < len || second.length < len) { return false; } for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) { if (first[i] != second[i]) { return false; } } return true; } }