There are several ways to declare and int array: int[] i = new int[capacity]; int[] i = new int[] {value1, value2, value3, etc}; int[] i = {value1, value2, value3, etc}; where in all of these, you can use int i[] instead of int[] i. With reflection, you can use (Type[]) Array.newInstance(Type.class, capacity); More @Wikipedia
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