Why do we need casting in Java?

Some people may ask why do you need type casting? well, you need type casting to get access to fields and methods declared on the target type or class . You can not access them with any other type. Let’s see a simple example of type casting in Java with two classes Base and Derived which share the same type hierarchy.

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Does Java have casting?

In Java, we can cast both reference and primitive data types . By using casting, data can not be changed but only the data type is changed. Note: type casting is not possible for a Boolean data type. There are 13 types of conversion in Java.

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