The Java Shell makes it easy to practice with variable declaration and initialization, as you can see in the examples below (note that semicolon terminators aren’t required).

With this new syntax, the object type does not need to be explicitly declared on the left hand side of the initialization. Instead, the object type can simply be inferred if you look at the right hand ...

Names for arrays have to respect the usual Java variable naming conventions. Creating and initializing an array Now we need to create an array object and initialize our variable with it.