Arguments in many methods in the Java APIs are of the type InputStream. This is how to get an InputStream from a String, where argument to getBytes, UTF-8, is the encoding to use:

InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(myString.getBytes(\"UTF-8\"));

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1.0 to 3.x:

N/A

4.5 to 4.6.7a:

JRE/JDK 1.1

5.0 to 5.0.13a:

JRE/JDK 1.1.8

6.0 to 6.5.6:

JRE/JDK 1.3.1

7.0 to 7.0.3:

JRE/JDK 1.4.2

8.0 to 8.0.1:

JRE/JDK 1.5.0

IBM also has a list of supported JDKs and JREs.

Old JDK/SDK/JRE versions can be downloaded at java.sun.com.
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