Thread: if statement incorrectly comparing strings

I have a bit of code that is just a simple login screen. I have a Swing GUI showing text field and a password field with some other labels and such.

The end user enters a user and pass and once the login button is pressed, the contents of the fields are supposed to go into string variables which then my program connects to a mySQL DB and searches for a matching username, retrieves the password associated with that username and compares the SQL password with the entered string variable pass. If they match, a dialog box appears saying they entered the right information, else, a dialog box saying they entered the wrong info.

**NOTE: I did try setting the if to (dbpass!=pass) and it will return whatever I set it to do if they do not match. ALSO, the program is retrieving the password correctly because I, as a test, set it to displayed the retrieved pass, and it is the correct one.

I have posted the code to the whole JPanel but have removed sensitive mySQL DB login information as I can correctly connect to the DB and pull info from it.

 
package intro;
 
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import java.awt.Font;
 
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.JPasswordField;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import java.awt.event.ContainerAdapter;
import java.awt.event.ContainerEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyAdapter;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.sql.*;
 
@SuppressWarnings("unused")
public class Intro extends JPanel {
	/**
	 * 
	 */
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
	private JTextField textField;
	private JPasswordField upass;
 
	/**
	 * Create the panel.
	 */
	public Intro() {
		setLayout(null);
 
		JPanel panel = new JPanel();
		panel.setBounds(10, 11, 580, 30);
		add(panel);
 
		JLabel lblWelcomeToThe = new JLabel("Welcome to the TotalBuild TMS");
		panel.add(lblWelcomeToThe);
 
		JLabel lblMinecraftUsername = new JLabel("Minecraft Username");
		lblMinecraftUsername.setFont(new Font("Tahoma", Font.PLAIN, 11));
		lblMinecraftUsername.setBounds(20, 52, 96, 14);
		add(lblMinecraftUsername);
 
		JLabel lblPassword = new JLabel("Password");
		lblPassword.setFont(new Font("Tahoma", Font.PLAIN, 11));
		lblPassword.setBounds(20, 77, 96, 14);
		add(lblPassword);
 
		textField = new JTextField();
		textField.setBounds(126, 49, 120, 20);
		add(textField);
		textField.setColumns(10);
 
		upass = new JPasswordField();
		upass.setBounds(126, 74, 120, 20);
		add(upass);
 
		JButton btnNewButton = new JButton("Login");
		btnNewButton.isDefaultCapable();
		btnNewButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
				String user = textField.getText();
				String pass = upass.getText();
				Connection con = null;
				String url = "jdbc:mysql://mySQL_ADDRESS:PORT/";
				String driver = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
				String db = "DB_NAME";
				try{
					  Class.forName(driver);
					  con = DriverManager.getConnection(url+db, "mySQL_USER", "mySQL_PASS");
					  try{
					  Statement st = con.createStatement();
					  st.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM ustep1 WHERE user='" + user + "'");
					  ResultSet rs = st.getResultSet ();
					  String dbpass = "";
					  while (rs.next ())
					   {
						  dbpass = rs.getString("pass");
					   }
					  if(dbpass==pass){
					  String result = "Welcome, " + user + ". You entered the correct login info.";
					  JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, result);
					  } else {
						  String result2 = "Sorry " + user + ", You entered incorrect login info." + dbpass;
						  JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, result2);
					  }
					  }
					  catch (SQLException s){
					  System.err.println("SQL Error!");
					  }
					  }
					  catch (Exception e){
					  e.printStackTrace();
					  }
 
			}
		});
		btnNewButton.setFont(new Font("Tahoma", Font.PLAIN, 11));
		btnNewButton.setBounds(30, 102, 89, 23);
		add(btnNewButton);
 
		JButton btnRegister = new JButton("Register");
		btnRegister.setFont(new Font("Tahoma", Font.PLAIN, 11));
		btnRegister.setEnabled(false);
		btnRegister.setBounds(136, 102, 89, 23);
		add(btnRegister);
 
	}
 
	private void setDefaultButton(JButton btnNewButton) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
 
	}
 
}