Java: overloaded method resolution and varargs — confusing example

Question

Just when I thought I understood JLS15.12 as it applied to varargs, here\'s this example:

package com.example.test.reflect;

public class MethodResolutionTes         


        

Answer 1

In section 8.4.1:

If the last formal parameter is a variable arity parameter of type T, it is considered to define a formal parameter of type T[].

Since you're explicitly providing an array, this allows the second two calls to match the variable arity method in the first phase, without consideration of variable arity.