how to compute for CRC-16?

[bronby]

are there any java built in function to compute for this?

or anyone has coded this in java?

else can someone explain how to compute it?

thanks in advance

 

[P.Hill]

are there any java built in function to compute for this?

Yes,

java.util.zip.CRC32

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/util/zip/CRC32.html
see also:
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/crc.html

HTH,
-Paul

 

[bronby]

CRC32, is that the same as CRC16??

 

[Thomas Weidenfeller]

CRC32, is that the same as CRC16??

They use different polynoms. For more details:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check

/Thomas

 

[Esmond Pitt]

CRC32, is that the same as CRC16??

except that it has 32 bits