In particular, if Java ever gets another ternary operator, people who use the term "conditional operator" will still be correct and unambiguous - unlike those who just say "ternary operator".

What is the Java ?: operator called and what does it do?

How do the post increment (i++) and pre increment (++i) operators work in Java? Asked 16 years, 2 months ago Modified 1 year, 11 months ago Viewed 451k times

Main difference between == and equals in Java is that "==" is used to compare primitives while equals() method is recommended to check equality of objects. String comparison is a common scenario of using both == and equals() method.

Details: Java 6, Apache Commons Collection, IntelliJ 12 Update/Answer: It turns out that IntelliJ 12 supports Java 8, which supports lambdas, and is "folding" Predicates and displaying them as lambdas. Below is the "un-folded" code.

What does the arrow operator, '->', do in Java? - Stack Overflow

The @ symbol denotes a Java Annotation. What a Java annotation does, is that it adds a special attribute to the variable, method, class, interface, or other language elements.

I always thought that && operator in Java is used for verifying whether both its boolean operands are true, and the & operator is used to do Bit-wise operations on two integer types.

What is the difference between & and && in Java? - Stack Overflow