will two strings with same content be stored in the same memory location?

Question

This is a question that I got in an interview.

I\'ve two strings defined as

String s1=\"Java\";
String s2=\"Java\";

My question i

Answer 1

String s1="Java";
String s2="Java";
My question is whether these two references point to the same memory location  

Dumb citing §3.10.5 of Java Language Specification:

A string literal is a reference to an instance of class String (§4.3.1, §4.3.3).

Moreover, a string literal always refers to the same instance of class String. This is because string literals - or, more generally, strings that are the values of constant expressions (§15.28) - are "interned" so as to share unique instances, using the method String.intern.

And read the comments to code example there:

This example illustrates six points:

• Literal strings within the same class (§8) in the same package (§7) represent references to the same String object (§4.3.1).

• Literal strings within different classes in the same package represent references to the same String object.

• Literal strings within different classes in different packages likewise represent references to the same String object.

• Strings computed by constant expressions (§15.28) are computed at compile time and then treated as if they were literals.

• Strings computed by concatenation at run time are newly created and therefore distinct.

• The result of explicitly interning a computed string is the same string as any pre-existing literal string with the same contents.