casting into primitive wrapper class

[Jan Groth]

hi there,
playing with the Collection Framework, I was wondering about the following issue:
What is the most efficient way (or: _any_ way but a loop) to cast a array of primitives
int myArray[] = {1,2,3,4,5}
into a array of Integer wrapper objects?
My goal was to be able to handle myArray[] as a Collection.
Arrays.asList(Object[] a)
looked like a appropriate method to me. But, as already quoted, I had to cast it manually to a help-array
Integer myHelpArray[]
which worked out, but doesn't look too efficient to me ;-)
thanks for any help,
Jan

[Dirk Schreckmann]

Welcome to JavaRanch, Jan!
We beginners aren't too interested in alleged efficiencies, especially as premature optimization is the root of all evil [Knuth]. We're more concerned with clarity of code.
Moving this to the Performance forum...
[ February 03, 2004: Message edited by: Dirk Schreckmann ]