help? trying to compare input with symbol.

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i am trying to have macromedia flash button send a double or a symbol like (+, =, &) to a java program. the java program will save the input on an arraylist. while the flash button sends doubles it simply puts them on the arraylist, but if a symbol comes in, then the items from the arraylist are removed and summed up.

so this is the code that i have. i do not want to use the showOPtionPane dialog boxes from the java library. i want jave to simply be able to receive input.

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import java.lang.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;

public class arrayList
{
    public static final String plus = "plus";
    public static final double TAX = 0.08;
    public static double subTotal = 0.00;
    public static double total = 0.00;
    
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        String price = "";  // initialized the variable price to empty string
        
        ArrayList keypad = new ArrayList(); // create an arraylist and name it
                                            // keypad
        
        while (true) // continuous loop to stop when array is
                                    // empty
        {
            try                     // read data from console
            {
                BufferedReader in =
                    new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
                //System.out.println("Enter price");
                //System.out.flush();
                price = in.readLine();
            }
            
            catch (IOException ioe) // if error then catch error
            {
                System.out.println(ioe);
            }
            
            keypad.add(price);  // put data read from console into stack
            
            if (price == ("+"))   // if the data is a plus sign then add the items
                                // in the stack (subtotal key)
            {
                keypad.remove(price); //remove the + sign from the stack
                
                for (int i = keypad.size() - 1; i <= 0; i--) // get all the data
                            // from the stack and continuously add them together
                {
                    keypad.get(i);      // get item from stack
                    subTotal += i;      // add it to itself
                    keypad.remove(i);   // remove item from stack
                }
                
                System.out.println("SubTotal is " + subTotal); // print subTotal
                                            // to console
            }
        }
    }
}

thx in advance.....