This seemed to be good news at first. An announcement by Oracle’s Joe Darcy claiming that Java will finally have *some* support for unsigned integers:
http://blogs.oracle.com/darcy/entry/unsigned_api
This will only be added on an API level, though. Not on a language level including all the expected features:
- Primitive types
- Wrapper types
- Arithmetics
- Casting rules
- Boxing / Unboxing
A very “light” implementation of what could be expected… In the mean time, if you do need wrapper types, feel free to download (and contribute) to jOOU:
https://code.google.com/p/joou/
See also my previous blog post about jOOU: