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

Apache POI was using short quite a few times. Probably because of Excel's row/column number limitation.

A few months ago they changed to int replacing

createCell(short columnIndex)

with

createCell(int column).