1. Java provides an alternate method of coding an if-else statement using the conditional operator. This operator is the only ternary operator in Java, as it requires three operands. The general syntax is:

(condition) ? statement1 : statement2;

2. If the condition is true, statement1 is executed. If the condition is false, statement2 is executed.

3. This is appropriate in situations where the conditions and statements are fairly compact.

   // returns the larger of two integers
int max(int a, int b)
{
   (a > b) ? return a : return b;
}