Answer Posted / charan

A String is immutable, i.e. when it's created, it can never change.
A StringBuffer (or its non-synchronized cousin StringBuilder) is used when you need to construct a string piece by piece without the performance overhead of constructing lots of littleStrings along the way.

The maximum length for both is Integer.MAX_VALUE, because they are stored internally as arrays, and Java arrays only have an int for their length pseudo-field.
The performance improvement between Strings and StringBuffers for multiple concatenations is quite significant.

If you run the following test code, you will see the difference. On my ancient laptop with Java 6, I get these results:
Concat with String took: 1781ms
Concat with StringBuffer took: 0ms

Code:

public class Concat
{
public static String concatWithString()
{
String t = "Cat";
for (int i=0; i<10000; i++)
{
t = t + "Dog";
}
return t;
}
public static String concatWithStringBuffer()
{
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("Cat");
for (int i=0; i<10000; i++)
{
sb.append("Dog");
}
return sb.toString();
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
concatWithString();
System.out.println("Concat with String took: " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - start) + "ms");
start = System.currentTimeMillis();
concatWithStringBuffer();
System.out.println("Concat with StringBuffer took: " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - start) + "ms");
}
}

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