Normally, when the primitive types are boxed into the wrapper types, the JVM allocates memory and creates a new object. But for some special cases, the JVM reuses the same object.
The following is the list of primitives stored as immutable objects:
boolean values true and false
All byte values
short values between -128 and 127
int values between -128 and 127
char in the range \u0000 to \u007F
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[ January 09, 2008: Message edited by: Krishna Srinivasan ]