Check string for palindrome

Question

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction.

To check whether a word is a palindrome I get th

Answer 1

public class palindrome {
public static void main(String[] args) {
    StringBuffer strBuf1 = new StringBuffer("malayalam");
    StringBuffer strBuf2 = new StringBuffer("malayalam");
    strBuf2.reverse();


    System.out.println(strBuf2);
    System.out.println((strBuf1.toString()).equals(strBuf2.toString()));
    if ((strBuf1.toString()).equals(strBuf2.toString()))
        System.out.println("palindrome");
    else
        System.out.println("not a palindrome");
}

}