What is the advantages and disadvantages of array in Java?

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Hemant Patel · Answer

There are several advantages and disadvantages of the array in java. Advantages and Disadvantages of Array in Java are as follows:

Advantages of the array in Java:

1. In Java, we can able to access any element randomly by using index number provided by arrays.

2. In Array, we can store many numbers of elements at a time.

3. It's fast because primitive type to wrapper classes object conversion will not happen in Array.

Disadvantages of the array in Java:

1. In Java, Arrays are Strongly Typed.

2. In Array, we can't able to add or remove methods.

3. An array having a fixed length, we need to initialize the size of the array.

4. Due to a fixed length, there is a chance of memory wastage.

5. When we want to delete an element in the array we need to traverse throughout the array so this will reduce performance.

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