Check string for palindrome

Question

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction.

To check whether a word is a palindrome I get th

Answer 1

IMO, the recursive way is the simplest and clearest.

public static boolean isPal(String s)
{   
    if(s.length() == 0 || s.length() == 1)
        return true; 
    if(s.charAt(0) == s.charAt(s.length()-1))
       return isPal(s.substring(1, s.length()-1));                
   return false;
}