In addition to int, the Java programming language supports seven other primitive data types. A primitive type is predefined by the language and is named by a reserved keyword.

While floating-point arithmetic may have surprising results, IEEE 754 floating-point arithmetic follows a principled design and its behavior is predictable on the Java platform.

See Java Language Changes for a summary of updated language features in Java SE 9 and subsequent releases. See JDK Release Notes for information about new features, …

This method uses the total order imposed by the method Float.compareTo(java.lang.Float): -0.0f is treated as less than value 0.0f and Float.NaN is considered greater than any other value …

This beginner Java tutorial describes fundamentals of programming in the Java programming language

The Boolean class wraps a value of the primitive type boolean in an object. An object of type Boolean contains a single field whose type is boolean. In addition, this class provides many …

DecimalNumeral, HexDigits, and OctalDigits are as defined in section 3.10.1 of The Java Language Specification, except that underscores are not accepted between digits.

The Short class is the wrapper class for values of the primitive type short. An object of type Short contains a single field whose type is short. In addition, this class provides several methods for …

These are created by the Java Virtual Machine, and have the same names as the primitive types that they represent, namely boolean, byte, char, short, int, long, float, and double.

The security of Java applications is enhanced by providing an implementation of the quantum-resistant Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm (ML-DSA).