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difference between types of main method

 
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What is difference between following types of main method ?
1. public static void main(String... args)
2. public static void main(String[] args)


Anyone please elaborate meaning of ... in first method.
 
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Its a var argument, which is new from Java 5
 
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whatever you are doing with [] ,also you can do with ... , but not vice versa
 
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The first one uses the varargs syntax. Note that they are not really different main() methods, just the syntax looks different. You couldn't make two main() methods with both signatures:

This does not compile, because the two methods have the same signature (i.e., you do not have two overloaded main() methods).
 
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