This one is more of a question of effeciency than anything, in the java tutorial's client/server example they use a BufferedReader to read the incoming data, now my plan is to implement a protocol where the first byte will identify what kind of object is incoming, and the rest of the packet is to be the incoming object. So the logic would be calling read() of the BufferedReader to get the first byte then a conditional read(,,) based on the first byte. Would this be feasible or is there a more effecient way? On a side note is it possible to have the BufferedReader's read method with the 3 arguments take an object for the first argument rather than a char array? Thanks

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