Not only in Java, this syntax is available within PHP, Objective-C too. In the following link it gives the following explanation, which is quiet good to understand it: A ternary operator is some operation operating on 3 inputs. It's a shortcut for an if-else statement, and is also known as a conditional operator. In Perl/PHP it works as:

Apr 26, 2012 · The Java jargon uses the expression method, not functions - in other contexts there is the distinction of function and procedure, dependent on the existence of a return type, which is required in a ternary expression.

How do the post increment (i++) and pre increment (++i) operators work in Java? Asked 15 years, 5 months ago Modified 1 year, 2 months ago Viewed 445k times

0 In Java, == and the equals method are used for different purposes when comparing objects. Here's a brief explanation of the difference between them along with examples: == Operator: The == operator is used for reference comparison. It checks whether two references point to the exact same object in memory. Example: String str1 = new String ...

May 15, 2017 · What is the percent % operator in java? Asked 8 years, 2 months ago Modified 4 years ago Viewed 64k times

Aug 5, 2015 · In Java Persistence API you use them to map a Java class with database tables. For example @Table () Used to map the particular Java class to the date base table. @Entity Represents that the class is an entity class. Similarly you can use many annotations to map individual columns, generate ids, generate version, relationships etc.

Jan 2, 2010 · Exponentiation in Java As for integer exponentiation, unfortunately Java does not have such an operator. You can use double Math.pow(double, double) (casting the result to int if necessary). You can also use the traditional bit-shifting trick to compute some powers of two. That is, (1L << k) is two to the k -th power for k=0..63. See also Wikipedia: Arithmetic shift

Jun 11, 2024 · The flag Xmx specifies the maximum memory allocation pool for a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), while Xms specifies the initial memory allocation pool. This means that your JVM will be started with Xms amount of memory and will be able to use a maximum of Xmx amount of memory. For example, starting a JVM like below will start it with 256 MB of memory and will …

JAVA_HOME if you installed the JDK (Java Development Kit) or JRE_HOME if you installed the JRE (Java Runtime Environment). In the Variable Value field, enter your JDK or JRE installation path . Open Command Prompt as Administrator. Set the value of the Environment variable to your JDK (or JRE) installation path as follows:

An interesting fact is that Java also uses the & and | as logic operands (they are overloaded, with int types they are the expected bitwise operations) to evaluate all the terms in the expression, which is also useful when you need the side-effects.