Difference between these two conditions?

Question

Sorry if my question is silly or not it doesnot matter. But i just want to know what will happen in these two conditions.

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Answer 1

They do pretty much the same.

The only difference is that the first example uses the equal() method of the string object "str" with the "test"-string as parameter while the second example uses the equal() method of the string "text" with "str" as parameter.

The second variant can't throw a NullPointerException since its obviously not null.