What is the Java equivalent of .NET BitConverter ?

Question

I was writing an article in which I wanted to show how to send objects across the network, from Java to CLR/.Net and Back.

http://ferozedaud.blogspot.com/2009/11/howto-serialize-data-from-object-from.html

While doing research for this, I could not find a Java equivalent for BitConverter class that exists in .NET. Due to this, I had to resort to using ByteBuffer to marshal primitive types to byte representation and vice versa.

Does anyone know of a Java equivalent for BitConverter class?

Answer 1

The nearest equivalents are DataInput/DataOutput (and DataInputStream, DataOutputStream etc).

In fact, those are more like BinaryReader/BinaryWriter, but they're probably what you want. I don't think there's anything directly equivalent to BitConverter, although you could fairly easily write your own code if necessary.