Autoboxing: So I can write: Integer i = 0; instead of: Integer i = new Integer(0);

Question

Autoboxing seems to come down to the fact that I can write:

Integer i = 0; 

instead of:

Integer i = new Integer(0);
         


        

Answer 1

The main advantage would be readability, syntactic sugar basically. Java is already very verbose, Sun is trying all sorts of ways to make the syntax shorter.