Real Life, Practical Example of Using String.intern() in Java?

Question

I\'ve seen many primitive examples describing how String intern()\'ing works, but I have yet to see a real-life use-case that would benefit from it.

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Answer 1

Never, ever, use intern on user-supplied data, as that can cause denial of service attacks (as intern()ed strings are never freed). You can do validation on the user-supplied strings, but then again you've done most of the work needed for intern().