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Java's an all OOP language, so it's fairly difficult to write Java procedurally :P (not to say it isn't possible, but it's generally not something you would want to do)

In all reality, you only...

I just gave a perfectly clear example of why Auto-boxing is useful :P

From a code maintainability standpoint, the first piece of code I have is much easier to read. In industry, code...

Sometimes boxing is necessary (and quite helpful). For example, you can't use primitives as generic parameters.

ArrayList<Integer> myList = new ArrayList<Integer>(); // must use the Integer...