Therefore, learning about variables in Java should be among the very first things you do when picking up the language. In this post, you’ll find everything you need to know.

Go Back ↩ Java Handbook Variables in Java Variables are used to store data values in Java. Every variable in Java has a data type that defines the kind of values it can hold. Java is a statically ...

Java SE 10 (March 2018) introduced type inference for local variables. Java Language Architect Brian Goetz explains the feature.

Sun’s Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) SDK 1.2 introduced the java.lang.ThreadLocal class, which developers use to create thread-local variables — ThreadLocal objects that store values ...