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- Wrapper classes for primtives are a mechanism to include primitives in activities reserved for objects. e.g. being part of Collections.
- Wrapper objects are immutable !
- All have two constructors - one takes a primitive, other a string representation.
- A valueOf() method also takes a string and returns a wrapper object in return. Also accepts an optional base (for Octal, Hex etc)
- Wrapper to primitive - use the xxxValue() methods like intValue() and floatValue()
- String to primitive - e.g. Integer.parseInt("22"), Double.parseDouble("3.14");
- toString() returns the string representation of the value represented by the wrapper.
- also base conversion is possible for Integer's and Long's - e.g. toBinaryString(), toHexString() and toOctalString().
