String object in a java is reference type or value type?

Question

String class object in java is value or reference type?

String name = "Hemant";
String newName = "Santosh";
name = newName;
name = "makar"
what is the value of name snd newName?

Answer 1

Name = "Santosh" and newName ="makar" according your code...

Addendum
What is your point actually?

Answer 2

In Java Strings are immutable, so reassignment actually causes the variable to point to a new instance of String rather than changing the value of the String

String name = "Hemant";
String newName = "Santosh";
name = newName; //"Santosh"
name = "makar" //"makar"

So value of name and newName shall be
"makar" and "Santosh" (newName remains unchanged) respectively

Answer 3

@devender that means its value type

Answer 4

String object in a java is a reference type. Please read the chapter "Reference Types" again.

They have clearly mentioned, "Arrays and Strings are also reference data types".
Note: String also works in similar way of an Array.