Big Endian and Little Endian — read + write word

I thought sharing some code for accessing word from in little & big endian ways will be helpful for someone.

get_word() implementation:

int get_word(int address) {
  int i = address — from; //From is the start address of memory in the Linear Address Space
  if (CONSTANTS.BIG_ENDIAN) {
    return (((int) memory[i] << 24)
          | (((int) memory[i + 1] << 16) & 0x00ff0000)
          | (((int) memory[i + 2] << 8) & 0x0000ff00)
          | (((int) memory[i + 3]) & 0x000000ff));
  } else {
    return (((int) memory[i + 3] << 24)
         | (((int) memory[i + 2] << 16) & 0x00ff0000)
         | (((int) memory[i + 1] << 8) & 0x0000ff00)
         | (((int) memory[i]) & 0x000000ff));
  }
}

set_word() implementation:

void set_word(int address, int data) {
  int i = address — from; //From is the start address of memory in the Linear Address Space
  if (CONSTANTS.BIG_ENDIAN) {
    memory[i] = (byte) (data >> 24);
    memory[i + 1] = (byte) ((data & 0x00ff0000) >> 16);
    memory[i + 2] = (byte) ((data & 0x0000ff00) >> 8);
    memory[i + 3] = (byte) (data & 0x000000ff);
  } else {
    memory[i + 3] = (byte) (data >> 24);
    memory[i + 2] = (byte) ((data & 0x00ff0000) >> 16);
    memory[i + 1] = (byte) ((data & 0x0000ff00) >> 8);
    memory[i] = (byte) (data & 0x000000ff);
  }
}

Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness