share state?????

[Leandro Oliveira]

'Values of the primitive types do not share state'
what does this mean???
Sorry if it is a too stupid question!!! but, I'm not very good with english!!! here in my country isn't easy to find good forums!!!

[marilyn murphy]

Primitive values do not share state with other primitive values.jls 4.2
Don't feel bad, it's not an easy statement for a native English speaker either.

[marilyn murphy]

The state of an object typically contains
references to other objects.

class Test
{
    int i=2;
    Integer number=new Integer(i); // reference to an Integer object
}

However a primitive cannot contain anything but the primitive value of that type. It cannot contain references to another primitive.

[Dirk Schreckmann]

The idea is simple, and you may likely understand it already. An example that further illustrates the concept:
If a variable i of type int is declared and given it an initial value 0, and another int variable j is declared and assigned the value of i, then both variables would have the value 0. If i is later assigned a different value such as 1, the value of j is not affected - j would still be 0.

int i = 0 ;
int j = i ;
i = 1 ;
System.out.println( j );  // prints 0

Making sense?