J2SE 5 introduced numerous features to the Java programming language. One of these features is autoboxing and unboxing, a feature that I use almost daily without even thinking about it.

Autoboxing and unboxing Java 5's autoboxing and unboxing language feature facilitates storing primitive type values in collections.

One of the things that confuses me about .NET literature is their talk of boxing and unboxing. A lot of .NET material reads somewhat easily because it was so similar to Java which I took a couple ...