Thanks for the response. I acutally looked at the wrapper class for Long, but it doesn't appear to have a "toBits" method like Integer and Double. However, it does have a toBinaryString method. However, it doesn't look like Long has a method that creates a Long from a binary
string representation. The decode method only works with decimal, hex, and octal. If I'm not missing something I'll have to whip up a utility class that contains the methods to move Long objects back and forth from a binary format.
Thanks for the help.
Landon