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.

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:

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

Jan 2, 2010 · 7 It is the Bitwise xor operator in java which results 1 for different value of bit (ie 1 ^ 0 = 1) and 0 for same value of bit (ie 0 ^ 0 = 0) when a number is written in binary form. ex :- To use your example: The binary representation of 5 is 0101. The binary representation of 4 is 0100.

Feb 7, 2013 · From Oracle's documentation: Note that the JVM uses more memory than just the heap. For example Java methods, thread stacks and native handles are allocated in memory separate from the heap, as well as JVM internal data structures.

While hunting through some code I came across the arrow operator, what exactly does it do? I thought Java did not have an arrow operator. return (Collection<Car>) CollectionUtils.select(list...

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.

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.