Tim wrote : | I think we have now (at least tacitly) agreed that byte buffers should be exposed, not byte[] so this is rather moot. | Let's make this explicit. Yes, ByteBuffer should be exposed. I said this may days and many posts ago. The problem in contention is where should they be exposed? At the top level or by one of the "layers". This is what we're trying to decide during the meeting today. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3980788#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...