equivalent class for HBase Bytes ?

[Sujee Maniyam]

Hbase has a handy Bytes class that can help in creating row-keys
http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.html

is there an equivalent utility class in Accumulo?

thanks!
Sujee Maniyam (http://sujee.net)