I never noticed it before, but after doing some java programming and coming back to C/C++ I've noticed there isn't a 'byte' data type.Why is that? It seems wrong to use a 'char' to store data that ...

For example, as a post-compilation step you could massage the .class data to make the byte code either harder to read when decompiled or harder to decompile into valid Java code (or both).

The other types of variables in Java are: byte – stores whole numbers from -128 to 127; ... There are other ways you can categorize variables in Java, and other ways you can manipulate data.

Primitive types represent the simplest, most direct way to represent data in code. Even the most complicated classes in Java can be flattened down to nothing more than the set of primitive data types ...