Not only in Java, this syntax is available within PHP, Objective-C too. In the following link it gives the following explanation, which is quiet good to understand it: A ternary operator is some operation operating on 3 inputs. It’s a shortcut for an if-else statement, and is also known as a conditional operator. In Perl/PHP it works as:
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