Generally Object should only be used when dealing with a collection of elements of disparate or unknown type . This then usually is followed by instanceof and cast statements. Many APIs return Object when then can provide disparate types and some of this is a holdover from Java 4 and older prior to generics.
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In JavaScript, a primitive (primitive value, primitive data type) is data that is not an object and has no methods . There are 7 primitive data types: string, number, bigint, boolean, undefined, symbol, and null.
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The eight primitive data types byte, short, int, long, float, double, char and boolean are not objects, Wrapper classes are used for converting primitive data types into objects , like int to Integer etc. Lets take a simple example to understand why we need wrapper class in java.
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Primitives are passed by value, i.e. a copy of the primitive itself is passed. Whereas for objects, the copy of the reference is passed, not the object itself. Primitives are independent data types, i.e. there does not exist a hierarchy/super class for them. Whereas every Object is descendent of class “Object” .27 Ara 2011
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The language defines eight Java primitive data types: boolean, float, double, byte, short, int, long and char. These eight Java primitive data types fall into the category of things that aren’t objects .30 Oca 2020
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To create an object of Main , specify the class name, followed by the object name, and use the keyword new :
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Example of Java new Operator
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