Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.IOException; public class Main { public static byte[] getBytesFromFile(File f) { if (f == null) { return null; } FileInputStream stream = null; ByteArrayOutputStream out = null; try { stream = new FileInputStream(f); out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(1000); byte[] b = new byte[1000]; int n; while ((n = stream.read(b)) != -1) out.write(b, 0, n); return out.toByteArray(); } catch (IOException e) { } finally { try { if (stream != null) stream.close(); if (out != null) out.close(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } return null; } }