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

Because the Java Language Specification says:

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.