How does this work?

How does StringBuilder work?is it a method and what does it do?A friend said to use this method in my program to reverse a string. It works but i want to know what it does so i know why he chose it.
[219 byte] By [RAWR-itsanONIONa] at [2007-11-27 2:21:47]
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It's a class. Look it up here. http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/
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