public final class ByteOrder
extends Object 

Since:

1.4

• Field Summary

  Fields

  Modifier and Type	Field	Description
  static ByteOrder	BIG_ENDIAN	Constant denoting big-endian byte order.
  static ByteOrder	LITTLE_ENDIAN	Constant denoting little-endian byte order.

• Method Summary

  All Methods

  Modifier and Type	Method	Description
  static ByteOrder	nativeOrder ()	Retrieves the native byte order of the underlying platform.
  String	toString ()	Constructs a string describing this object.

  • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

    clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

• Field Detail

  • BIG_ENDIAN

    public static final ByteOrder BIG_ENDIAN

    Constant denoting big-endian byte order. In this order, the bytes of a multibyte value are ordered from most significant to least significant.

  • LITTLE_ENDIAN

    public static final ByteOrder LITTLE_ENDIAN

    Constant denoting little-endian byte order. In this order, the bytes of a multibyte value are ordered from least significant to most significant.

• Method Detail

  • nativeOrder

    public static ByteOrder nativeOrder()

    Retrieves the native byte order of the underlying platform.

    This method is defined so that performance-sensitive Java code can allocate direct buffers with the same byte order as the hardware. Native code libraries are often more efficient when such buffers are used.

    Returns:

    The native byte order of the hardware upon which this Java virtual machine is running

  • toString

    public String toString()

    Constructs a string describing this object.

    This method returns the string "BIG_ENDIAN" for BIG_ENDIAN and "LITTLE_ENDIAN" for LITTLE_ENDIAN.

    Overrides:

    toString in class Object

    Returns:

    The specified string