String zeta = new String("The last rose of summer." );

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, as follows:

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

This creates a String object containing the characters between quote marks, just as before. Java also does something to optimize performance, but ignore this for now. A String created in this short-cut way is called a String literal. Most classes do not have a short-cut like this. Most other objects are constructed by using the new operator.