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

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

I thought Java uses pass-by-reference.

However, I've seen a couple of articles that claim that it isn't (the blog post says that Java uses pass-by-value).

I don't think I understand the difference between them.

What is the explanation?

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4 years ago by ninja01

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**seetharamrao31ewl** · Answer 1 · 2021-04-26T13:14:38

Pass by reference is a method of passing parameters to the function which we can find in C and C++ programming languages. As java does not support the pointers explicitly we can consider that java uses Pass-by-value method to pass parameters to the function.
In Pass-by-value method of parameter passing we pass the actual value of the parameters where as In Pass-by-Reference method of parameter passing we pass the address of the variable which needs to be passed...

**Sonali7** · Answer 2 · 2021-04-29T11:57:31

Java is strictly pass by value. This is because in java the method parameter values are copied to another variable and then the copied object is passed.

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

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