A string literal in Java is basically a sequence of characters from the source character set used by Java programmers to populate string objects or to display text to a user. These characters could be anything like letters, numbers or symbols which are enclosed within two quotation marks.

What is string literal in Java example?

By string literal : Java String literal is created by using double quotes. For Example: String s=“Welcome”; ... For example: String s=new String(“Welcome”); It creates two objects (in String pool and in heap) and one reference variable where the variable 's' will refer to the object in the heap.

Why string is literal in Java?

Why Java uses the concept of String literal? To make Java more memory efficient (because no new objects are created if it exists already in the string constant pool).