Is Java pass-by-value or pass-by-reference?

There is a very common misconception that Java is pass-by-reference. The difficult thing to understand is that Java passes objects as references and those references are passed by value. The Java Spec says that everything in Java is pass-by-value. There is no such thing as "pass-by-reference" in Java. So Java is always pass-by-value.



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