Java: What’s the difference between autoboxing and casting?

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Boxing is when you convert a primitive type to a reference type, un-boxing is the reverse. Casting is when you want one type to be treated as another type, between primitive types and reference types this means an implicit or explicit boxing operation. Whether it needs to be explicit is a language feature.

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