How to read .eips file in Java ?

[Norm Radder]

i want to read a value from that record

What format is that value in? Where is the first  byte of the value and how many bytes does use.

Note: The variable named: recLength  should be given a name that describes what it holds.  It looks like the variable named: size holds the record's length. A better name might be theRecord or buffer.

I suggest that you write a small testing program to work out the classes and methods for extracting data from an array of bytes.  Here are some useful tools:
System.out.println("an ID "+ java.util.Arrays.toString(theArrayName)); // display the contents of an array
ByteArrayOutputStream - use this to write some test data into a byte array for testing the code to read from the array
ByteArrayInputStream - use to create an InputStream from a byte array.  That InputStream can be used with higher level classes to access the data in the bytes.  

[Paul Clapham]

if((char)recLength[0] == '2' && (char)recLength[1] == '5' ){

Well, this is kind of the hard way to do it. A lot easier to write and (more important) easier to read:

if (recLength.startsWith("25")) {

And for other parts of the record you should find out about the substring() method of the String class.

And by the way "recLength" isn't a good name for the data in the record, in my opinion. It sounds more like the length of the record than the record itself. I would have called it "record" or something like that.