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  • noun computing, programming Automatic boxing (mapping primitive data items to complex objects).

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auto- +‎ boxing

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  • How to run javac 1.5 (or beyond) compiler for JSP compilation in Tomcat 5.5 with generics enabled (and other Java 1.5 only features like autoboxing)

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010

  • · J2SE 5.0 "Tiger" Language Support - We support the new Java language constructs such as enums, generics, metadata annotations, autoboxing, static imports and others.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • The objective of autoboxing is to simplify code and increase readability and, as such, is a welcome addition.

    Sun Bloggers sebsto 2010

  • · Moved codebase to minimum of Java 5 for generics/autoboxing

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • To me this means autoboxing such that you can call a mutating sub with a constant.

    Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2009

  • This in turn motivated autoboxing, a solution to the syntax problem that I consider to be yet another code smell.

    Java Technology Headlines 2008

  • I also wish we'd found some way to make generics work with primitive types, so that we could have avoided autoboxing and auto-unboxing, which have proven bug prone.

    doggdot.us 2008

  • The improvements include annotations, generics, enums, autoboxing, variable number of arguments and static imports.

    Hottest News Articles 2008

  • And since C# provides autoboxing, you can assign anything you want to this variable.

    Planet SUSE 2008

  • And since C# provides autoboxing, you can assign anything you want to this variable.

    Planeta Linux México 2008

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