Immutability of Strings in Java

Question

Consider the following example.

String str = new String();

str  = \"Hello\";
System.out.println(str);  //Prints Hello

str = \"Help!\";
System.out.println(s         


        

Answer 1

The Object string - methods itself is made to be "immutable". This action produces no changes: "letters.replace("bbb", "aaa");"

But assigning data does cause changes to the Strings content to change:

    letters = "aaa";
    letters=null;
    System.out.println(letters);
    System.out.println(oB.hashCode());
    System.out.println(letters);
    letters = "bbbaaa";
    System.out.println(oB.hashCode());
    System.out.println(letters);

//The hashcode of the string Object doesn't change.