How Arrays.asList(int[]) can return List<int[]>?
<p>While doing simple program I noticed this issue.</p>

<pre><code>int[] example = new int[10];
List&lt;Integer&gt; exampleList = Arrays.asList(example);// Compilation error here  
</code></pre>

<p>Compilation error is returned as <code>cannot convert from List&lt;int[]&gt; to List&lt;Integer&gt;</code>. But <code>List&lt;int&gt;</code> is not permitted in java so why this kind of compilation error?</p>

<p>I am not questioning about autoboxing here I just wondered how <code>Arrays.asList</code> can return <code>List&lt;int[]&gt;</code>.</p>

<p>asList implementation is </p>

<pre><code>public static &lt;T&gt; List&lt;T&gt; asList(T... a) {
return new ArrayList&lt;T&gt;(a);
}
</code></pre>

<p>So it is treating int[] as T that is why this is happening.</p>
