In their 2009 JavaOne presentation Return of the Puzzlers: Schlock and Awe ( PDF ), Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter presented seven more puzzlers and extracted lessons learned from each of these ...

Creating a Java string. Below is one simple syntax for creating a Java string. String greeting = "Hello world!"; In this example, "Hello world!" is a string literal, which is a series of characters ...

You could avoid the “lack of type safety” and “not enough information” problems by using java.lang.String constants. For example, you might specify static final String DIR_NORTH = "NORTH";.