diff --git a/.classpath b/.classpath
index 88d37ef..907ff21 100644
--- a/.classpath
+++ b/.classpath
@@ -24,10 +24,5 @@
 			<attribute name="org.eclipse.jst.component.nondependency" value=""/>
 		</attributes>
 	</classpathentry>
-	<classpathentry excluding="**" kind="src" output="target/classes" path="src/main/resources">
-		<attributes>
-			<attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
-		</attributes>
-	</classpathentry>
 	<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
 </classpath>
diff --git a/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs b/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
index 04cfa2c..8bc0e1c 100644
--- a/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
+++ b/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 eclipse.preferences.version=1
 encoding//src/main/java=UTF-8
-encoding//src/main/resources=UTF-8
 encoding//src/test/java=UTF-8
 encoding//src/test/resources=UTF-8
 encoding/<project>=UTF-8
diff --git a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
index a6896ac..44f2db9 100644
--- a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
+++ b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><project-modules id="moduleCoreId" project-version="1.5.0">
-            
+                
+    
     
     <wb-module deploy-name="envoy-common">
-                        
+                                
+        
         
         <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/main/java"/>
-                
-        <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/main/resources"/>
-                    
+                            
+    
     
     </wb-module>
-        
+            
+
 
 </project-modules>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 6e20167..eee2dcf 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -18,5 +18,36 @@
 
 	<build>
 		<finalName>envoy-common</finalName>
+		<plugins>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+				<artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>3.2.1</version>
+				<executions>
+					<execution>
+						<id>attach-sources</id>
+						<goals>
+							<goal>jar</goal>
+						</goals>
+					</execution>
+				</executions>
+			</plugin>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+				<artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>3.1.1</version>
+				<executions>
+					<execution>
+						<id>attach-javadocs</id>
+						<goals>
+							<goal>jar</goal>
+						</goals>
+					</execution>
+				</executions>
+				<configuration>
+					<doclint>none</doclint>
+				</configuration>
+			</plugin>
+		</plugins>
 	</build>
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/java/envoy/util/SerializationUtils.java b/src/main/java/envoy/util/SerializationUtils.java
index b26aa49..3007bfe 100644
--- a/src/main/java/envoy/util/SerializationUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/envoy/util/SerializationUtils.java
@@ -1,16 +1,6 @@
 package envoy.util;
 
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
-import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
-import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
-import java.io.OutputStream;
-import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.io.*;
 
 /**
  * Project: <strong>envoy-client</strong><br>
@@ -24,7 +14,27 @@ public class SerializationUtils {
 
 	private SerializationUtils() {}
 
-	private static byte[] intToBytes(int n) { return new byte[] { (byte) (n >>> 24), (byte) (n >>> 16), (byte) (n >>> 8), (byte) n }; }
+	/**
+	 * Converts an integer into a byte array.
+	 *
+	 * @param n the integer to convert
+	 * @return a byte array of length 4
+	 * @since Envoy Common v0.2-alpha
+	 */
+	public static byte[] intToBytes(int n) { return new byte[] { (byte) (n >>> 24), (byte) (n >>> 16), (byte) (n >>> 8), (byte) n }; }
+
+	/**
+	 * Converts four bytes in byte array to an integer
+	 *
+	 * @param bytes  the bytes to convert from
+	 * @param offset the offset at which four bytes are read
+	 * @return the converted integer
+	 * @since Envoy Common v0.2-alpha
+	 */
+	public static int bytesToInt(byte[] bytes, int offset) {
+		return ((bytes[offset] & 0xFF) << 24) | ((bytes[offset + 1] & 0xFF) << 16) | ((bytes[offset + 2] & 0xFF) << 8)
+				| ((bytes[offset + 3] & 0xFF) << 0);
+	}
 
 	/**
 	 * Deserializes an arbitrary {@link Serializable} object from a file.
@@ -46,7 +56,7 @@ public class SerializationUtils {
 
 	/**
 	 * Deserializes an arbitrary {@link Serializable} object from a byte array.
-	 * 
+	 *
 	 * @param <T>             the type of the serialized object
 	 * @param bytes           the array in which the serialized object is stored
 	 * @param serializedClass the class of the serialized object
@@ -63,7 +73,7 @@ public class SerializationUtils {
 
 	/**
 	 * Deserializes an arbitrary {@link Serializable} object from a stream.
-	 * 
+	 *
 	 * @param <T>             the type of the serialized object
 	 * @param in              the {@link InputStream} of a serialized Object
 	 * @param serializedClass the object type to convert the deserialized object
@@ -103,7 +113,7 @@ public class SerializationUtils {
 
 	/**
 	 * Serializes an arbitrary object to a byte array.
-	 * 
+	 *
 	 * @param obj the object to serialize
 	 * @return a byte array containing the serialized object
 	 * @throws IOException if the serialization failed