When a string literal is created, the Java virtual machine checks the string pool to see if it already exists. The string constant pool is a memory area where strings are stored. If the value exists, ...

In their 2009 JavaOne presentation Return of the Puzzlers: Schlock and Awe ( PDF ), Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter presented seven more puzzlers and extracted lessons learned from each of these ...

In Java, the string constant pool is a pool of strings stored in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). When you create a string using double quotes in Java, it's stored in the string constant pool. The ...

This API models nominal descriptions of key-class file and runtime artifacts, particularly constants loadable from the constant pool. Java 12 defines a family of value-based symbolic reference ...