public static boolean equals (short[] a, short[] a2)

Returns true if the two specified arrays of shorts are equal to one another. Two arrays are considered equal if both arrays contain the same number of elements, and all corresponding pairs of elements in the two arrays are equal. In other words, two arrays are equal if they contain the same elements in the same order. Also, two array references are considered equal if both are null.

Parameters:
a    one array to be tested for equality
a2    the other array to be tested for equality

Returns:  true if the two arrays are equal