Two questions: about volatile and >>> operator

Howdy!

I need a little info on these lil' critters I've got here...

First: What is thevolatile modifier...? What does it do...?

And second: What is the >>> or <<< operator...? First I just assumed they were bit rotation, but now I'm not so sure... I've used bit shifting operators before, but a webpage I found recently says Java doesn't have support for these operators...? What the...?

That is all... :)

[467 byte] By [vagrantcharlya] at [2007-10-2 8:41:04]