if statements won't recognize variables!

Hi guys. I am pretty new to servlets, so please bear with me.

I have a servlet up and running that is properly displaying posts from my html code properly (i.e. I get values for "actionString" and "weight"). However, when I try to use an if statement to display the message "you made it." , it doesn't work. What is happening here?

String actionString = request.getParameter("action");

String weight2 = request.getParameter("weight");

out.println("the actionString is: " + actionString);

out.println("the weight is: " + weight2);

String question3a;

question3a ="1";

if(actionString == question3a){

out.println("you made it.");

}

Thanks,

Nathan

[960 byte] By [gudmunsna] at [2007-10-2 11:26:21]