Oliver Jowett wrote:
> I suppose so. I'd point out that the NIO byteorder info is really just
> an optimization hint -- the rest of the NIO API is byteorder agnostic,
> regardless of what the native byteorder is.
>
The rest of the NIO API is not agnostic. A java.nio.ByteBuffer is big
endian by default and can be changed using the order method. This is the
mechanism you'd use to implement I/O that can handle either endian type.
Regards,
Thomas Hallgren
