Operator overloading in Java

No, Java doesn't support user-defined operator overloading. The only aspect of Java which comes close to "custom" operator overloading is the handling of + for strings, which either results in compile-time concatenation of constants or execution-time concatenation using StringBuilder/StringBuffer. You can't define your own operators which act in the same way though.

For a Java-like (and JVM-based) language which does support operator overloading, you could look at Kotlin or Groovy. Alternatively, you might find luck with a Java compiler plugin solution.


Operator overloading is used in Java for the concatenation of the String type:

String concat = "one" + "two";

However, you cannot define your own operator overloads.