How is length implemented in Java Arrays?

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According to the Java Language Specification (specifically §10.7 Array Members) it is a field:

  • The public final field length, which contains the number of components of the array (length may be positive or zero).

Internally the value is probably stored somewhere in the object header, but that is an implementation detail and depends on the concrete JVM implementation.

The HotSpot VM (the one in the popular Oracle (formerly Sun) JRE/JDK) stores the size in the object-header:

[…] arrays have a third header field, for the array size.

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