Introduction
Preon is a framework for dealing with binary encoded data. It intends to be to binary encoded data what Hibernate is to relational databases, and JAXB to XML.
The project is named after the "point-like" particles, conceived to be subcomponents of quarks and leptons. Let's just say very small particles that you don't see with the naked eye, but they are spread all over the place, and without them, the universe would probably fall apart.
Preon exists of two different modules. The BitBuffer module defines an abstraction to sequence of bits. The Binding module allows you to declaratively bind the contents of a file to a Java-based data structure.