Anyone using short and byte primitive types, in real apps?

Question

I have been programming in Java since 2004, mostly enterprise and web applications. But I have never used short or byte, other than a toy program just to know

Answer 1

Until today I haven't notice how seldom I use them.

I've use byte for network related stuff, but most of the times they were for my own tools/learning. In work projects these things are handled by frameworks ( JSP for instance )

Short? almost never.

Long? Neither.

My preferred integer literals are always int, for loops, counters, etc.

When data comes from another place ( a database for instance ) I use the proper type, but for literals I use always int.