In the Java programming language, a primitive wrapper class is one of eight classes provided in the java.lang package to provide object methods for the eight primitive types. All of the primitive wrapper classes in Java are immutable. J2SE 5.0 introduced autoboxing of primitive types into their wrapper object, and automatic unboxing of the wrapper objects into their primitive value—the implicit conversion between the wrapper objects and primitive values.
Wrapper classes are used to represent primitive values when an Object is required. The wrapper classes are used extensively with Collection classes in the java.util package and with the classes in the java.lang.reflect reflection package.
The primitive wrapper classes and their corresponding primitive types are:
Primitive type Wrapper class byteByteshortShortintIntegerlongLongfloatFloatdoubleDoublecharCharacterbooleanBoolean
The Byte, Short, Integer, Long, Float, and Double wrapper classes are all subclasses of the Number class.
Void
Although it is not a wrapper class, the Void class is similar in that it provides an object representation of the void return type. The Void class is an uninstantiable placeholder class used by the java.lang.reflect API to hold a reference to the Class object representing the Java keyword void.