http://download.java.net/jdk6/docs/api/java/nio/ByteBuffer.html#get(byte[])

You need to create your byte[] first. There isn't an absolute version.

http://download.java.net/jdk6/docs/api/java/nio/Buffer.html

"Transferring data

"Each subclass of this class defines two categories of get and put
operations:

"Relative operations read or write one or more elements starting at the
current position and then increment the position by the number of
elements transferred. If the requested transfer exceeds the limit then a
relative get operation throws a BufferUnderflowException and a relative
put operation throws a BufferOverflowException; in either case, no data
is transferred.

"Absolute operations take an explicit element index and do not affect
the position. Absolute get and put operations throw an
IndexOutOfBoundsException if the index argument exceeds the limit.

"Data may also, of course, be transferred in to or out of a buffer by
the I/O operations of an appropriate channel, which are always relative
to the current position."

Tom Hawtin