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How JVM represents NULL internally

I am curious to know how JVM represents a Null internally.What would be the bit pattern.?Can some one give information about this. I m trying to map null value of java to some legacy database null value.
[231 byte] By [Spider1a] at [2007-10-2 6:26:34]
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Null is represented any way the runtime wants. The Sun JRE (and probably most other runtimes) happens to represent it as all bits zero. But you shouldn't care; you can't see the actual representation (without JNI). There is no "getBitPatternOfPointer()" method. If you use JDBC with a database, setNull() will do whatever conversion is necessary.

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