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Wrapping Primitives to Enable Returning null — Bad Practice?

I am frequently tempted to wrap integers, etc, solely for the purpose of writing methods that can return null. Negative 1 can work in many cases, but too often (especially in sound) it's a valid ...
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Naming methods that do the same thing but return different types

Let's assume that I'm extending a graphical file chooser class (JFileChooser). This class has methods which display the file chooser dialog and return a status signature in the form of an int: ...