The wrapper classes in Java allow primitive data types to be converted to object references and vice versa. The eight primitive types have corresponding wrapper classes, and since Java 5 autoboxing and unboxing was introduced to automatically convert between primitives and wrappers without needing explicit wrapper class methods. Examples show converting primitives like int to wrappers like Integer, and converting wrappers back to primitives.
The wrapper classes in Java allow primitive data types to be converted to object references and vice versa. The eight primitive types have corresponding wrapper classes, and since Java 5 autoboxing and unboxing was introduced to automatically convert between primitives and wrappers without needing explicit wrapper class methods. Examples show converting primitives like int to wrappers like Integer, and converting wrappers back to primitives.
The wrapper classes in Java allow primitive data types to be converted to object references and vice versa. The eight primitive types have corresponding wrapper classes, and since Java 5 autoboxing and unboxing was introduced to automatically convert between primitives and wrappers without needing explicit wrapper class methods. Examples show converting primitives like int to wrappers like Integer, and converting wrappers back to primitives.
The wrapper classes in Java allow primitive data types to be converted to object references and vice versa. The eight primitive types have corresponding wrapper classes, and since Java 5 autoboxing and unboxing was introduced to automatically convert between primitives and wrappers without needing explicit wrapper class methods. Examples show converting primitives like int to wrappers like Integer, and converting wrappers back to primitives.
The wrapper class in Java provides the mechanism to convert primitive into object and object into primitive. Since J2SE 5.0, autoboxing and unboxing feature convert primitives into objects and objects into primitives automatically. The automatic conversion of primitive into an object is known as autoboxing and vice-versa unboxing.
The eight classes of the java.lang package are known as wrapper classes in Java. The list of eight wrapper classes are given below:
Primitive Type Wrapper class
boolean Boolean
char Character
byte Byte
short Short
int Integer
long Long
float Float
double Double
autoboxing
The automatic conversion of primitive data type into its corresponding
wrapper class is known as autoboxing, for example, byte to Byte, char to Character, int to Integer, long to Long, float to Float, boolean to Boolean, double to Double, and short to Short. Since Java 5, we do not need to use the valueOf() method of wrapper classes to convert the primitive into objects.
Wrapper class Example: Primitive to Wrapper
//Java program to convert primitive into objects
//Autoboxing example of int to Integer public class Ex { public static void main(String args[]) { //Converting int into Integer int a=20; Integer i=Integer.valueOf(a); //converting int into Integer explicitly Integer j=a; //autoboxing, now compiler will write Integer.valueOf(a) internally System.out.println(a+" "+i+" "+j); } } Output: 20 20 20
Unboxing
The automatic conversion of wrapper type into its corresponding primitive
type is known as unboxing. It is the reverse process of autoboxing. Since Java 5, we do not need to use the intValue() method of wrapper classes to convert the wrapper type into primitives.
Wrapper class Example: Wrapper to Primitive
//Java program to convert object into primitives //Unboxing example of Integer to int public class Ex { public static void main(String args[]) { //Converting Integer to int Integer a=new Integer(3); int i=a.intValue(); //converting Integer to int explicitly int j=a; //unboxing, now compiler will write a.intValue() internally System.out.println(a+" "+i+" "+j); } } Output: 333
Java Wrapper classes Example
//Java Program to convert all primitives into its corresponding
//wrapper objects and vice-versa
public class Ex
public static void main(String args[])
byte b=10;
short s=20;
int i=30;
long l=40;
foat f=50.0F;
double d=60.0D;
char c='a';
boolean b2=true; //Autoboxing: Converting primitives into objects
