What is autoboxing in java...?

[Abhijit Kangale]

Hi everyone,

What is the meaning of autoboxing in java...?

Thanks & Regards,
ABHIJIT

[Jesper de Jong]

Java 5 Language Features: Autoboxing

Note that simple questions like this can quickly be answered by Google - try searching for "java autoboxing" for more links.

[Maneesh Godbole]

Abhijit,

I do not mean to sound rude or anything, but I have been noticing you are posting a lot of "what is..." and "how to..." type questions. Of course this would mean you are very keen on learning new stuff. However it might be a good idea to read http://faq.javaranch.com/java/SearchFirst

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[Nishan Patel]

Hi,

I give you simple example. As you know List and when you declare list it add object.

 List list = new ArrayList();
          int i = 4;
          list.add(new Integer(i));

In above code you can see when you declare primitive data type int to add list we have to convert into wrapper class or say object. That is use in Pre java 1.5 or upto java 1.4

but java 1.5 use Auto boxing and automatically convert into object or wrapper class that is called autoboxing.

in java1.5

 List list = new ArrayList();
          int i = 4;
          list.add(i);  [b]autoboxing in java.. [/b]

[Rob Spoor]

Autoboxing is Java Programming 101 these days. Moving to Beginning Java.