Method inheritance Generic class comparet

Question

I’m implementing a Node class where I wanted the equals and compareTo method to be inherited from type T, but I’m not getting it. If you make a statement like this

public class Node<T extends Comparable<? super T>> implements Comparable <Node<T>>

And override the methods as shown below

@Override
public boolean equals(Object e) {
    Node<T> aux = (Node<T>) e;
    if (this.value.equals(aux.getValue()))
        return true;
    else
        return false;
}

 @Override
public int compareTo(Node<T> a) {
    int res = this.value.compareTo(a.getValue());
    return res;
} 

However the idea I have is to make the following statement that this class would inherit the type T Comparable

public class Node<T extends Comparable<? super T>>

Can you explain to me what I’m doing wrong and why it works with the first statement but not the last?

I tested this last statement by creating Node and trying to compare but it doesn’t work, for two nodes with the same string gives me that it is false, but I know that the String type implements the Comparable interface, so I think you are not inheriting the methods.

How I made the comparison was so

Node<String> a = new Node<String("1234");
Node<String> b = new Node<String("1234");
System.out.println(a.equals(b));

Output gives false

Thank you