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Posted by Kishori Sharan on April 18, 2001 at 12:38 PM

You cannot do directly what you are looking for. I think you have an int and you want to pass an argument or you want to work with an Object of Number class. You cannot directly cast an int or any primitive data type to a reference type. What you can do is create a Integer object as:
Integer num = new Integer ( your_int ) ;

Since Integer is a subclass of Number , you can use num anywhere you need Number.

Thanx
Kishori

• thanks Isbelle April 18, 2001 at 1:11 PM (0)