diff --git a/src/java/foundation/pEp/jniadapter/Utils.java b/src/java/foundation/pEp/jniadapter/Utils.java
index 709998f..f701794 100644
--- a/src/java/foundation/pEp/jniadapter/Utils.java
+++ b/src/java/foundation/pEp/jniadapter/Utils.java
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.text.Normalizer;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Vector;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 public class Utils {
     private Utils() { }
@@ -112,4 +114,14 @@ public class Utils {
 
         return result;
     }
+
+    public static boolean URIEqual(String left, String right) {
+        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("^.*?://");
+        Matcher leftMatcher = pattern.matcher(left.trim());
+        String leftRelevant = leftMatcher.replaceAll("");
+        Matcher rightMatcher = pattern.matcher(right.trim());
+        String rightRelevant = rightMatcher.replaceAll("");
+
+        return rightRelevant.equals(leftRelevant);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/test/java/foundation/pEp/jniadapter/test/jni147/Makefile b/test/java/foundation/pEp/jniadapter/test/jni147/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e7bfaad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/java/foundation/pEp/jniadapter/test/jni147/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+include ../../../../../../../Makefile.conf
+include ../Makefile.conf
+
+TEST_UNIT_NAME=jni147
+
+JAVA_CLASSES+= \
+ 	TestAlice.class
+
+.PHONY: pitytest compile alice test clean
+
+all: alice compile
+
+pitytest:
+	$(MAKE) -C $(PITYTEST_DIR)
+
+alice: compile clean-pep-home-alice
+	cd $(JAVA_CWD);pwd;HOME=$(JAVA_PEP_HOME_DIR_ALICE) $(JAVA) $(JAVA_PKG_BASENAME).$(TEST_UNIT_NAME).TestAlice
+
+compile: $(JAVA_CLASSES) pitytest
+
+%.class: %.java
+	cd $(JAVA_CWD);javac -cp $(CLASSPATH) $(JAVA_PKG_BASEPATH)/$(TEST_UNIT_NAME)/$<
+
+clean:
+	rm -f $(JAVA_CLASSES)
+	rm -f *.class
+	rm -f *.log
+	rm -Rf .gnupg
+	rm -Rf .lldb
+
+clean-pep-home: clean-pep-home-alice
+
+clean-pep-home-alice:
+	rm -rf $(PEP_HOME_DIR_ALICE)/.pEp
diff --git a/test/java/foundation/pEp/jniadapter/test/jni147/TestAlice.java b/test/java/foundation/pEp/jniadapter/test/jni147/TestAlice.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b68518
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/java/foundation/pEp/jniadapter/test/jni147/TestAlice.java
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+package foundation.pEp.jniadapter.test.jni147;
+
+
+import foundation.pEp.jniadapter.test.utils.CTXBase;
+import foundation.pEp.pitytest.TestSuite;
+import foundation.pEp.pitytest.TestUnit;
+import foundation.pEp.pitytest.utils.TestUtils;
+import static foundation.pEp.jniadapter.Utils.*;
+
+
+/*
+JNI-147 - Utils: add a method to check two URIs for equlity
+
+Definition:
+On both URI's:
+* remove leading and trailing withespace
+* remove substring before and with "://"
+compare the resulting strings byte by byte for case sensitive equality.
+
+e.g.
+"file://testname" == "testname"
+*/
+
+
+class TestAlice {
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+        TestSuite.getDefault().setVerbose(true);
+        TestSuite.getDefault().setTestColor(TestUtils.TermColor.GREEN);
+        CTXBase jni147Ctx = new CTXBase();
+
+        new TestUnit<CTXBase>("URIEquals tests", new CTXBase(), ctx -> {
+            // SAME
+            assert URIEqual("", "") == true : "1";
+            assert URIEqual("file://", "") == true : "2";
+            assert URIEqual("", "file://") == true : "3";
+            assert URIEqual("alice@peptest.com", "alice@peptest.com") == true : "4";
+            assert URIEqual("mailto://alice@peptest.com", "alice@peptest.com") == true : "5";
+            assert URIEqual("alice@peptest.com", "mailto://alice@peptest.com") == true : "6";
+            assert URIEqual("mailto://alice@peptest.com", "mailto://alice@peptest.com") == true : "7";
+            assert URIEqual("", " ") == true : "8";
+            assert URIEqual("file://", " ") == true : "9";
+            assert URIEqual(" ", "file://") == true : "10";
+            // NOT SAME
+            assert URIEqual("alice@peptest.com", "bob@peptest.com") == false : "11";
+            assert URIEqual("mailto://alice@peptest.com", "bob@peptest.com") == false : "12";
+            assert URIEqual("alice@peptest.com", "mailto://bob@peptest.com") == false : "13";
+        });
+
+        TestSuite.getDefault().run();
+    }
+}
+
+