java converting ints to send over network

Question

Is there a built in function to convert ints to Big-endian or little-endian for sending over the network? like htonl and ntohl in c

Also, is there something similar to strings, datetime, etc..

Thanks

Answer 1

Hope this helps : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/362384/are-integers-in-java-little-endian-or-big-endian

Answer 2

Java streams use network byte order. That means you only have to worry about things like htonl and ntohl in C and it ilk.