I've tried to so everything I've been asked. If this version passes muster with everyone I'll Javadoc all the public methods and fields and put it up for RFA next week.
I guess it's going to need a lot of testing and security analysis. I added versions of all {put,get} methods with the boolean bigEndian argument. This makes HeapByteBuffer much cleaner, and it does not need to know the machine endianness at all. I hope that's OK. Andrew. http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/unaligned.hotspot.4/ http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/unaligned.jdk.4/