Autoboxing and Unboxing

Autoboxing and Unboxing

The Autoboxing and Unboxing  was released with the Java 5.

Autoboxing

During assignment, the automatic transformation of primitive  type(int, float, double etc.) into their object equivalents or wrapper type(Integer, Float, Double,etc) is known as Autoboxing.

Ex:

Integer intObject = 5; // autoboxing

auto-unboxing

During assignment or calling of constructor, the automatic transformation of wrapper types into their primitive equivalent  is known as Unboxing.

Ex:
int inative = 0;
inative = new Integer(5); // auto-unboxing

Autoboxing also works with comparison
int a = 10;
Integer b = 10;
System.out.println(a==b); // true