The term
data type refers to the type of data that can be stored in a variable. Sometimes, Java is called a “strongly typed
language”
because when you declare a variable, you must specify the variable’s
type. Then the compiler ensures that you don’t try to assign data of the
wrong type to the variable. The following example code generates a
compiler error:
int x;
x = 3.1415;
Because
x is declared as a variable of type
int (which holds whole numbers), you can’t assign the value
3.1415 to it.
Java distinguishes between two kinds of data types: primitive types and reference types.
Primitive types are the data types defined by the language itself. By contrast,
reference types
are types defined by classes in the Java application programming
interface (API) or by classes you create rather than by the language
itself.
Java defines eight primitive types:
Type |
Explanation |
int |
A 32-bit (4-byte) integer value |
short |
A 16-bit (2-byte) integer value |
long |
A 64-bit (8-byte) integer value |
byte |
An 8-bit (1-byte) integer value |
float |
A 32-bit (4-byte) floating-point value |
double |
A 64-bit (8-byte) floating-point value |
char |
A 16-bit character using the Unicode encoding scheme |
boolean |
A true or false value |
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