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<b>Don't get confused</b><br/>

The term mentioned <i>Primitive Wrapper Classes</i> <b>does not</b> mean that Wrapper classes are Primitive types in Java. It should be read this way, a class that wraps a primitive type. 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 <i>Non-Primitive</i>. 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 [[subclasses]] of the {{Javadoc:SE|java/lang|Number}} class.