Easy way to Construct Strings

String objects are very useful and are frequently used. To make life easier for programmers, Java has a short-cut way of creating a String object:

String zeta = "The last rose of summer." ;

This creates a String object containing the characters between quote marks. A String created in this short-cut way is called a String literal. Remember that if several statements in a program ask for literals containing the same characters, only one object will actually be constructed (see chapter 26). Other classes do not have short-cuts like this. Objects of most classes are constructed by using the new operator.