Why is there only read(byte[]) & not read(int[])

Question

I'm trying to read large raw images using the RandomAccessFile. Different images are of different types, some are uInt8, some are int8, some are int16, uInt16, float, etc. The only way I know to read them fast enough is by reading an array of bytes, and then putting the bits together into a new array of the desired type, e.g. shifting and adding to the bytes.
I'm sure there's a clever way to read different types really fast... How?

Answer 1

Well... Is there any possabilities to create a new
int[] array that is "pointing" at the same memory
allocation as the byte[], just as you can do in C or
other languages with pointers?
Nope, Java is type safe.
It would be easy if I could make the compiler
interpret the byte[] as an int[]... Suggestions?
Create a java.io.DataInputStream to read from a java.io.ByteArrayInputStream that reads from your byte[] is one option:ByteArrayInputStream byteStream = ByteArrayInputStream(anArrayOfBytes);
DataInputStream integerStream = new DataInputStream(byteStream);
int firstInt = integerStream.readInt();
...If you need random access to an int array maybe you need to create the array first and the read ints to it...