The “wrapper” classes for the primitive data types allow you to make a non-primitive object on the heap to represent that primitive type. For example:
char c = ‘x’;
Character ch = new Character(c);
Or you could also use:
Character ch = new Character(‘x’);
Java SE5 autoboxing will automatically convert from a primitive to a wrapper type:
Character ch = ‘x’;
and back:
char c = ch;
[Thinking in Java 44]
