Operators are used in Java more or less as you would expect. Let's face it, operators are stoopid boring, mostly obvious, and 90% intuitive. But the section 23A of the Law of Tech Book Writing states that all programming authors must talk about operators. Okay. I'll make you a deal. We'll play nice, and deal with operators, and just get it over with as painlessly as possible.
Java features operators for arithmetic, incrementing and decrementing , logical operations, and bitwise operations. First, let's take care of the unpleasant business of operator precedence.