You are misunderstanding the String constructor. It uses the UTF-8 charset to convert each byte in the array into an UTF-8 character. The string class can not know that this byte array represents a 64 bit long.
In pure Java you could use ByteBuffer to get back a long from your byte array. As ByteBuffer is not emulated by GWT you can not use it on client side. I would recommend using Guava (every Java project should have this library by default ;-) ). Guava has Longs.toByteArray(long) and Longs.fromByteArray(byte[]). Both work with GWT. If you can not use Guava... well... then copy their implementation of the above methods. -- J. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
