valueOf vs parseInt

Hello all,

I was experimenting with wrapper classes and their methods.

String s ="15";

System.out.println(Integer.valueOf(s + 1));//answer 16

System.out.println(Integer.parseInt(s) + 1);//answer 16

As you can see above, by running the code above, valueOf generated 16 and so did parseInt. The reason I added 1 to the answer is to know if it is really converting the string 15 to an integer because if it didn't, I would get 151 and not 16.

My question is this, whats the difference? I know that valueOf can convert an integer to a binary number but im not so sure.

Thanks all :)

[719 byte] By [Xenobiusa] at [2007-11-27 8:52:32]