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doubt about wrapping and boxing

 
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are wrapping and boxing the same?
if not wht is the diffrence between them?
 
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Issue is just semantics since process is going from int to wrapper object and wrapper to int:



Remember that e.x. Integer Object-type is only wrapper object!



http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/03/24/autoboxing.html


Boxing is a way to wrap primitive types with objects so that they can be used like objects. For example, the Integer class wraps the int primitive type in Java. Similarly, unboxing is a way to convert object types back to primitive types.


[ December 13, 2007: Message edited by: Jari Timonen ]
 
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