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Java array comparison table
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Java data type        data type
Java arrayif you do not a-priori know the number of items it will contain 
//the following sums all the elements of an integer array:
for(int i=0; i{
sum += anIntArray[i];
}
collections of objectsprimitive types and instances of classesan instance of a class which you can subclass or for which you can write your own codea fixed number of elementsarray declarationJava data type

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