Primitive Types vs Reference Types

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Primitive Types

A primitive type is predefined by the Java programming language and named by its reserved keyword (§3.9): boolean, integer, long, float, double, byte, short, char.

Reference Types

There are four kinds of reference typesclass types (§8), interface types (§9), type variables (§4.4), and array types (§10).