下面是一个使用递归的例子:

public void reverseString() {
    String alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
    String reverseAlphabet = reverse(alphabet, alphabet.length()-1);
}

String reverse(String stringToReverse, int index){
    if(index == 0){
        return stringToReverse.charAt(0) + "";
    }

    char letter = stringToReverse.charAt(index);
    return letter + reverse(stringToReverse, index-1);
}

递归:

 public String stringReverse(String string) {
    if (string == null || string.length() == 0) {
        return string;
    }
    return stringReverse(string.substring(1)) + string.charAt(0);
 }

StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder("racecar");
    for (int i = 0, j = s.length() - 1; i < (s.length()/2); i++, j--) {
        char temp = s.charAt(i);
        s.setCharAt(i, s.charAt(j));
        s.setCharAt(j, temp);
    }

    System.out.println(s.toString());

public static void main(String[] args) {
    String str = "Prashant";
    int len = str.length();
    char[] c = new char[len];
    for (int j = len - 1, i = 0; j >= 0; j--, i++) {
        c[i] = str.charAt(j);
    }
    str = String.copyValueOf(c);
    System.out.println(str);
}

看一下StringBuffer下的Java 6 API

String s = "sample";
String result = new StringBuffer(s).reverse().toString();

由于下面的方法(使用XOR)反转字符串没有列出，我附加这个方法来反转字符串。

该算法基于:

1.(a xor b) xor b = a 2.(a xor b) xor a = b

代码片段:

public class ReverseUsingXOR {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String str = "prateek";
        reverseUsingXOR(str.toCharArray());
    }   

    /*Example:
     * str= prateek;
     * str[low]=p;
     * str[high]=k;
     * str[low]=p^k;
     * str[high]=(p^k)^k =p;
     * str[low]=(p^k)^p=k;
     * 
     * */
    public static void reverseUsingXOR(char[] str) {
        int low = 0;
        int high = str.length - 1;

        while (low < high) {
            str[low] = (char) (str[low] ^ str[high]);
            str[high] = (char) (str[low] ^ str[high]);   
            str[low] = (char) (str[low] ^ str[high]);
            low++;
            high--;
        }

        //display reversed string
        for (int i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
            System.out.print(str[i]);
        }
    }

}

输出:

keetarp