problem in java,network byte order to host byte order

hi all!
i have got a lot of help here before this also and this time too i expect kind support of all of u.
I ahve to implement a protocol. I have to send a tcp datapacket with some variables(strings and integers) which i can create. But when we do such program in C we convert the data in network byte order to host byte order and vice-versa for transmission of data. I java what we will do with that. Is it required at all...or i can simply send the string thru socket connection. i just wanted to know that is there any funda like nbo-hbo conversion in java?
Thanx
Nidhi