OPERATOR PRECEDENCE

Java has well-defined rules for specifying the order in which the operators in an expression are evaluated when the expression has several operators.
Precedence Order: When two operators share an operand the operator with the higher precedence goes first.
Associativity: When two operators with the same precendence the expression is evaluated according to its associativity. That is associativity of an operator is a property that determines how operators of the same precedence are grouped.
The table below shows all Java operators from highest to lowest precedence, along with their associativity.

Operator	Description	Associativity
[] . () ++ --	access array element access object member invoke a method post-increment post-decrement	left to right
++ -- + - ! ~	pre-increment pre-decrement unary plus unary minus logical NOT bitwise NOT	right to left
() new	cast object creation	right to left
* / %	multiplicative	left to right
+ - +	additive string concatenation	left to right
<< >> >>>	shift	left to right
<  <=  >=   > instanceof	Relational Type comparision	left to right
== !=	Equality	left to right
&	bitwise AND	left to right
^	bitwise XOR	left to right
|	bitwise OR	left to right
&&	conditional AND	left to right
||	conditional OR	left to right
?:	conditional	right to left
==  +=  -= *=  /= %= &=  ^= >>=  <<= >>>=	assignment	Right to left

Order of evaluation: In Java, the left operand is always evaluated before the right operand. Also applies to function arguments.

Short circuiting: When using the conditional AND and OR operators (&& and ||), Java does not evaluate the second operand unless the first argument does not suffice to determine the value of expression.