title: Does Spring interpret byte arrays as base64 encoded data
body: <p>I implemented a REST service using Java + Spring 3. One of these receives a byte array as part of the Json.</p>
  
  <p>I found that if I consume it from another program and send my data as either a byte[] or a String in base64, they are both accepted and work correctly, I was wondering why is this, is it beacause bytes are interpreted by Spring as a String in base64 ?</p>