In Java an array is a way of storing multiple items of the same type. In this quick tutorial we introduce you to the very basics.

For example, an array can store multiple data items in its various slots, and an object can store multiple data items via its fields. I refer to these data structures as aggregates.

Java provides a data structure, the array, which stores a fixed-size sequential collection of elements of the same type. An array is used to store a collection of data, but it is often more useful to ...