I'm a bit confused: I have a function, that takes an Object as argument. But the compiler does not complain if I just pass a primitive and even recognizes a boolean primitive as Boolean Object. Why is that so?
public String test(Object value)
{
if (! (value instanceof Boolean) ) return "invalid";
if (((Boolean) value).booleanValue() == true ) return "yes";
if (((Boolean) value).booleanValue() == false ) return "no";
return "dunno";
}
String result = test(true); // will result in "yes"