The following table lists Java's precedence and associativity characteristics. Each box contains operators that have equal precedence. The top box contains the highest-precedence operators:

Operator level	Associativity
( ) [ ] .	left to right
! ++ -- + (unary) - (negation) new (data type)	right to left
* / %	left to right
+ -	left to right
< <= > >=	left to right
== !=	left to right
&	left to right
ˆ	left to right
|	left to right
&&	left to right
||	left to right
?:	right to left
= += -= *= /= %= &= ˆ= |= <<= >>=	right to left

Note that the name of each data type, when surrounded by parentheses, is considered a casting operator. Also, the parentheses following a method name are considered to be the function-call operator.

The & and | operators, as well as the exclusive-or operator, ^, are bitwise operators, rather than Boolean operators.