Operator overloading in Java

Question

Please can you tell me if it is possible to overload operators in Java? If it is used anywhere in Java could you please tell me about it.

Answer 1

Or, you can make Java Groovy and just overload these functions to achieve what you want

//plus() => for the + operator
//multiply() => for the * operator
//leftShift() = for the << operator
// ... and so on ...

class Fish {
    def leftShift(Fish fish) {
        print "You just << (left shifted) some fish "
    }
}


def fish = new Fish()
def fish2 = new Fish()

fish << fish2

Who doesnt want to be/use groovy? :D

No you cannot use the compiled groovy JARs in Java the same way. It still is a compiler error for Java.