What is short-circuit evaluation of Boolean expressions?

Short-circuit evaluation is a mechanism in Java that allows the early termination of the evaluation of a compound Boolean expression.This occurs when two Boolean expressions are joined by the && operator when the first expression evaluates to false.The evaluation short-circuits because no matter what the value of the second expression is,the expression will evaluate to false.When two Boolean expressions are joined by the || operator,if the first expression evaluates to true,then the evaluation will short circuit because the expression will always evaluate to true no matter what the second expression evaluates to.