> This is not true if you happen to be using Java on the client side,
> which has no idea (unless you grot around in the guts of the JVM) what
> the native byte order is.
>
The method java.nio.ByteOrder.nativeOrder() will tell you what the native byte order is.
> This actually means that Java clients have the
> opposite problem -- it's a lot of work to try to use the 7.3-style
> binary formats.
>
The commonly used java.io.DataInput will always use network order but it's easy enough to read/write little endian using the java.nio and java.nio.channel packages.
Regards,
Thomas Hallgren
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