At the moment I’m at a most painful taskt of converting different Java types into byte-array for sending over the network.
I need to remember that Java stores everything in a 2complement notation.
But to handle all that stuff I’ve written my own Byte-O-Rama Class in Java. It’s a shit that Java isn’t even able to encode
its basic data-types into byte[] in a simple and convenient manner. I don’t talk ByteBuffers/writers and stupid stuff i talk
byte[] barr = (byte[]) intValue; Plain and simple Type-Conversion. Shouldn’t even be explicit. But since XML is overhyped in Java
no one seems to be concerned that anybody out there might use playn byte[] ’s as a fast, overhead-free Method to serialize his objects.
Python conveniently offers this: http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-struct.html
If I’ve got time and anybody bothers I will go and publish my Byte-O-Rama.