What do you have so far (besides a problem description)?

Andrew T.

It's not entirely clear what you're asking.  All data in the computer are in
binary, so is your object simply an Integer or even an int?  What do you
mean by decimal equivalent?  Do you mean to convert the number to a string?
"Standard" binary notation (2's complement in my world) includes negative
numbers, so you are saying this binary number is already unsigned?  And
Integers are already immutable.

My guess is that this is an exercise for a 1st-year computer science course
and it means to convert positive number (probably in an int) into a String
for display--a very common type of exercise.

You'll have to explain more about what you're trying to do.

Matt Humphrey matth@ivizNOSPAM.com http://www.iviz.com/

This will do what you want

/**
* returned the unsigned value as an int
*/
public int getUnsigned( byte b)
{
int result = 0;
 if ((b & 0x80) != 0)
{
 result = (int) 0x80;
}
else
 result = 0;
result += (0x7f & b);
return result;
}