From: vwheeler 



Adam Flinton wrote:

> Ellen K. wrote:
>
>> ISTR (but don't everyone jump on me if this is wrong, I am no Java
>> expert) that in Java the "native" datatypes like an
integer go on the
>> stack, while the object ones go on the heap.   But even without that
>> obviously the native datatypes are gonna be faster to work with.
>>
>
> int.
>

No, in Java the integer is a primitive, "Integer" (uppercase I)
is a "wrapper class" that contains an int. All the primitives in
Java have wrapper classes.

> integer is an object.
>
> Adam
>
>> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:44:32 -0600, "Geo"
 wrote in
>> message :
>>
>>

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