Does Java read integers in little endian or big endian?

Question

I ask because I am sending a byte stream from a C process to Java. On the C side the 32 bit integer has the LSB is the first byte and MSB is the 4th byte.

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Answer 1

I stumbled here via Google and got my answer that Java is big endian.

Reading through the responses I'd like to point out that bytes do indeed have an endian order, although mercifully, if you've only dealt with “mainstream” microprocessors you are unlikely to have ever encountered it as Intel, Motorola, and Zilog all agreed on the shift direction of their UART chips and that MSB of a byte would be 2**7 and LSB would be 2**0 in their CPUs (I used the FORTRAN power notation to emphasize how old this stuff is :) ).

I ran into this issue with some Space Shuttle bit serial downlink data 20+ years ago when we replaced a $10K interface hardware with a Mac computer. There is a NASA Tech brief published about it long ago. I simply used a 256 element look up table with the bits reversed (table[0x01]=0x80 etc.) after each byte was shifted in from the bit stream.