Top "Autoboxing" questions

Boxing is the process of using an object to wrap a primitive value so that it can be used as a reference object; extracting a previously-boxed primitive is called unboxing.

Correct way of converting String to Long in Java

What is the most preferred way of converting a String to Long (the Object) in Java. Long a = new Long(…

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Java autoboxing rules

I am a java novice and so confused by the following example. Is it okay to think that "==" sign will …

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What is the difference between autoboxing and coercion?

I program in Java, C and Python. The rule for automatic coercions among arithmetic types have been augmented to handle …

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How does the Java Boolean wrapper class get instantiated?

In java, I can write code like this Boolean b = true ; And it will work. I now have an object …

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Null values of Strings and Integers in Java

public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) { String s = null; String s1 = null; Integer i = null; Integer i1 = …

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