📖 String vs StringBuffer vs StringBuilder

public final class String
    implements java.io.Serializable, Comparable<String>, CharSequence {
    /** The value is used for character storage. */
    private final char value[];

    /** Cache the hash code for the string */
    private int hash; // Default to 0
    
    ...
    
    public String() {
        this.value = "".value;
    }

    /**
     * Initializes a newly created {@code String} object so that it represents
     * the same sequence of characters as the argument; in other words, the
     * newly created string is a copy of the argument string. Unless an
     * explicit copy of {@code original} is needed, use of this constructor is
     * unnecessary since Strings are immutable.
     *
     * @param  original
     *         A {@code String}
     */
    public String(String original) {
        this.value = original.value;
        this.hash = original.hash;
    }

    /**
     * Allocates a new {@code String} so that it represents the sequence of
     * characters currently contained in the character array argument. The
     * contents of the character array are copied; subsequent modification of
     * the character array does not affect the newly created string.
     *
     * @param  value
     *         The initial value of the string
     */
    public String(char value[]) {
        this.value = Arrays.copyOf(value, value.length);
    }

/*문자열 리터럴*/
String str1 = "amazzi";
String str2 = "amazzi";

/*String 클래스의 생성자*/
String str3 = new String("amazzi");
String str4 = new String("amazzi);

str1.equals(str2); // true
str3.equals(str4); // true

str1 == str2; // true
str3 == str4 // false

public final class StringBuffer
    extends AbstractStringBuilder
    implements java.io.Serializable, CharSequence
{

    /**
     * A cache of the last value returned by toString. Cleared
     * whenever the StringBuffer is modified.
     */
    private transient char[] toStringCache;

    /** use serialVersionUID from JDK 1.0.2 for interoperability */
    static final long serialVersionUID = 3388685877147921107L;

    /**
     * Constructs a string buffer with no characters in it and an
     * initial capacity of 16 characters.
     */
    public StringBuffer() {
        super(16);
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a string buffer with no characters in it and
     * the specified initial capacity.
     *
     * @param      capacity  the initial capacity.
     * @exception  NegativeArraySizeException  if the {@code capacity}
     *               argument is less than {@code 0}.
     */
    public StringBuffer(int capacity) {
        super(capacity);
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a string buffer initialized to the contents of the
     * specified string. The initial capacity of the string buffer is
     * {@code 16} plus the length of the string argument.
     *
     * @param   str   the initial contents of the buffer.
     */
    public StringBuffer(String str) {
        super(str.length() + 16);
        append(str);
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a string buffer that contains the same characters
     * as the specified {@code CharSequence}. The initial capacity of
     * the string buffer is {@code 16} plus the length of the
     * {@code CharSequence} argument.
     * <p>
     * If the length of the specified {@code CharSequence} is
     * less than or equal to zero, then an empty buffer of capacity
     * {@code 16} is returned.
     *
     * @param      seq   the sequence to copy.
     * @since 1.5
     */
    public StringBuffer(CharSequence seq) {
        this(seq.length() + 16);
        append(seq);
    }

StringBuffer sb2 = sb.append("zzi");

StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("abc");
StringVuffer sb2 = new StringVuffer("abc");
...
sb == sb2; // false
sb.equals(sb2); // false

String s = sb.toString();
String s2 = sb2.toString();
...
s.equals(s2); // true