HI,
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HERE, LET ME HELP YOU WITH THAT "CAPS LOCK" KEY. SOMETIMES IF YOU BANG IT WITH YOUR FIST, LIKE THis, it comes unstuck. There! That's better!
I'm not quite sure what you're asking. In
Java, the primitive types like "int", "char", "double", "boolean" aren't kinds of objects; as a result, you can't treat them like objects. This is unfortunate, because all of the nice collection classes (the Lists, Sets, Maps, etc) only work with objects.
That's where those "wrapper" classes come in. If you wrap up an "int" inside an "Integer" wrapper object, then you can treat the result as any other object. You can store it in a Collection, or do any of the many other things that only work with Objects. When you need to get the primitive back, there are methods like intValue() to get it out again.
Java 5 -- the newest version of Java -- will often do this kind of wrapping and unwrapping for you automatically. It's called "autoboxing".