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Therefore, the term ''Primitive wrapper class'' does not mean that wrapper classes are primitive types. It should be understood to be a class that wraps primitive types. Wrapper classes can be used to store the same value as of a primitive type variable but the instances/objects of wrapper classes themselves are ''Non-Primitive''. We cannot say that Wrapper classes themselves are Primitive types. They just wrap the primitive types.

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The <code>Byte</code>, <code>Short</code>, <code>Integer</code>, <code>Long</code>, <code>Float</code>, and <code>Double</code> wrapper classes are all [[subclass (computer science)|subclass]]es of the {{Javadoc:SE|java/lang|Number}} class.