From: Adam Flinton 

vwheeler wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>

The primitive is the int. You are correct that Integer has a capital I.


http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/datatypes.html


Adam

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

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