Best way to read structured binary files with Java

Question

I have to read a binary file in a legacy format with Java.

In a nutshell the file has a header consisting of several integers, bytes and fixed-length char arrays, f

Answer 1

I've written up a technique to do this sort of thing in java - similar to the old C-like idiom of reading bit-fields. Note it is just a start but could be expanded upon.

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