Comparing two objects

[NightyNiner]

When you create a method that compares two objects and it's arguments are of a type of another class, do you have to do some sort of casting if you get a incompatible type error? Is it even possible to cast a String into a another class or vice versa. Heres the code I have so far

class Object{

  String Object;


}

public class Equals  {
	
	    
 public static Object object(Object zero1, Object zero2) {
	
	zero1 = "hello";        
        zero2 = str1;

        System.out.println("Same object? " + (zero1 == zero2));
   
    }
}