understanding String operation

[Abhishk Gupta]

Here is my doubt:

String str = “abc”;

What actually goes behind the scene when JVM sees this statement. How does it recognize “abc” as a String instance and what function of String class are called to act.

[Campbell Ritchie]

The compiler recognises that as a String; you should compile a little class with that code in, and inspect it with javap -c Foo to see how it works.