Difference between null and empty (“”) Java String

Question

What is the difference between null and the \"\" (empty string)?

I have written some simple code:

String a = \"\";
String b         


        

Answer 1

Amazing answers, but I'd like to give from a different perspective.

String a = "StackOverflow";
String a1 = "StackOverflow" + "";
String a2 = "StackOverflow" + null;

System.out.println(a == a1); // true
System.out.println(a == a2); // false

So this can tell us "" and null point to the different object references.