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1. Is encapsulating Strings as byte[] in order to save memory overkill ? (Java)    stackoverflow.com

Was recently reviewing some Java Swing code and saw this: 

byte[] fooReference;

String getFoo() {
   returns new String(fooReference); 
}

void setFoo(String foo) {
  this.fooReference = foo.getBytes();
}
The above can be useful to ...

2. Java little endian order    stackoverflow.com

I need to store data as LITTLE_ENDIAN instead of default BIG_ENDIAN. Here's my sample code: 

for (int i = 0; i < logo.length; i++) {
  logoArray[i] = ((Integer) logo[i]).byteValue();

  logoArray[i] = ...