Fundamentals - SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java Platform SE6 - page 44

TABLE 1.2 The Java Operators

Operator Symbol and Precedence

expression++ , expression--

Post-increment/post-decrement

++expression , --expression

Pre-increment/pre-decrement

+ , - , ~ , !

Unary operators

* , / , %

Multiplication/division/modulus

+ , -

Addition/subtraction

<< , >> , >>>

Shift operators

< , > , <= , >= , instanceof

Relational operators

== , !=

Equal to/not equal to

& , ^ , |

Bitwise AND, exclusive OR, inclusive OR

&& , ||

Logical AND, OR

? :

Ternar y operator

= += -= *= /= %= &= ^= |= <<= >>= >>>=

Assignment operators

The SCJP exam objectives specifi cally mention the following operators:

Assignment operators: =, += and -=

Arithmetic operators: + , - , * , / , % , ++ , and --

< , <= , > , >= , == , and !=
The instanceof operator
Bitwise and logical operators: & , | , ^ , ! , && , and ||
The conditional operator (?:)
The upcoming sections discuss each of these categories of operators and the details that
you need to know about the operators for the SCJP exam.

Relational operators:

The Assignment Operators

Java has 12 assignment operators : the simple assignment = and 11 compound assignment
operators : += , -= , *= , and so on. An assignment stores the result of the right-hand side of