// BoxingTests.java (c) 2005 Kari Laitinen // http://www.naturalprogramming.com // 2005-05-02 File created. // 2005-05-02 Last modification. class BoxingTests { static int increment_integer( Object integer_as_object ) { int integer_to_increment = (Integer) integer_as_object ; integer_to_increment ++ ; return integer_to_increment ; } public static void main( String[] not_in_use ) { int some_integer = 222 ; int incremented_integer = increment_integer( some_integer ) ; System.out.print("\n Incremented value : " + incremented_integer ) ; // Type Integer behaves largely as int. Integer another_integer = 333 ; another_integer = another_integer + 444 ; another_integer = another_integer - some_integer ; System.out.print("\n Incremented another_integer : " + increment_integer( another_integer ) ) ; } }