In addition to String, Java has the java.lang.StringBuffer and java.lang.StringBuilder classes. These can also be used to concatenate Strings. The advantage of these classes is that both these classes are mutable, so using them does not result in the creation of new String objects. So StringBuffer and StringBuilder have a better performance as compared to the + operator and concat method.
The StringBuffer class has a method called append which can be used to concatenate Strings. It appends the value passed in with the StringBuffer on which it is invoked. The following code demonstrates this.
As before, this code creates string1 and string2. It also creates a StringBuffer called result. It then invokes the append method with both the Strings. So, this code also prints the same output as before: Hello World
