The recipient’s email software will Base64-decode the encoded textual image to restore the original binary image. For this example, the image would be shown inline with the rest of the message.

JavaWorld’s Java tips coordinator John Mitchell also proposes another experiment. You can use zip compression on the resulting XML document from any encoding scheme before transferring the document.

In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...