Decoding/Encoding UTF representation

[Jose Alberto Fernandez]

Hi, this may be a simple question but if anyone can give me some pointers I will appreciate.   For a project that we are working on, we want our very small client to read and write messages to our MINA based server by simply using DataOutput.writeUTF(String) and DataInput.readUTF() from the socket.   Of course I would like MINA’s codec to be able to read/write this information without needing the use of Streams or the StreamIoHandler if I can help it. Are there any examples of what is required to do this? I looked at MINA’s  ByteBuffer .putString() and ByteBuffer.getString() but I am not sure how to use them.   Any hints appreciated.   Jose Alberto