Basic Java question: String equality

Question

public class A {

    static String s1 = \"I am A\";

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String s2 = \"I am A\";
        System.out.println(s1 == s         


        

Answer 1

Java manages a String literal pool. It reuses these literals when it can. Therefore the two objects are actually the same String object and == returns true.

I believe this is called string interning