=equal to !not equal to >greater than or equal to greater than the operators =and !can also be used for object references the type of the result of comparison is boolean operators that operate on boolean values are the following&not (prefixconditional and conditional or the boolean operators &and will not evaluate the second operand (to the rightin their expression if it is not needed to determine the value of the expression this feature is usefulfor examplefor constructing boolean expressions where we first test that certain condition holds (such as reference not being null)and then test condition that could have otherwise generated an error condition had the prior test not succeeded bitwise operators java also provides the following bitwise operators for integers and booleansbitwise complement (prefix unary operatorbitwise and bitwise or bitwise exclusive-or shift bits leftfilling in with zeros shift bits rightfilling in with sign bit