terminology - What is the difference between data types and literals in Java?

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What is the difference between data types and literals in Java?

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Answer 1

From Java Data types tutorial

Data types :

Primitive types are special data types built into the language; they are not objects created from a class

Literal :

A Literal is the source code representation of a fixed value; literals are represented directly in your code without requiring computation

boolean result = true;

boolean - is data type
true - is literal