Re: Suggestions for reading binary data from a connected socket.

From: Roedy Green (look-on_at_mindprod.com.invalid)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:48:29 GMT

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 23:50:47 -0700, "My Name"
<temp1001@debusschere.com> wrote or quoted :

>I am new to Java coming from Win32 C/CPP. After a lot of searching, I have
>yet
>to find an example explaining the best solution for reading and writing a
>binary
>message from a socket.

If you are starting from scratch and need to communicate with C, you
might use big-endian DataOutputStreams. If you are working with
legacy, you might use LEDataStream to read the little-endian data.

On the Java end, there is also nio which can handle both big and
little endian formats.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/endian.html 

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