public final class ByteOrder
extends Object

A typesafe enumeration for byte orders.

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

  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.

• Field Details

  • 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 Details

  • 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

    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