Chapter Summary

The following topics were explained in this chapter:

• operators in Java, including precedence and associativity rules

• type conversions: casting, narrowing and widening: in addition, the unary and binary numeric promotions are stated, and the context under which they are applied discussed

• defining and evaluating arithmetic and boolean expressions

• assigning values and assigning references

• object value equality and object reference equality

• parameter passing, both primitive values and object references, including arrays and array elements: in addition, final parameters are also discussed

• passing program arguments