de>StreamMessage.readShort</code> is used to read a <code>boolean</code> value. Note that the
 special case of a failure caused by an attempt to read improperly formatted <code>String</code> data as numeric values
 must throw the <code>java.lang.NumberFormatException</code>.</div>
<dl>
<dt><span class="simpleTagLabel">Since:</span></dt>
<dd>JMS 1.0</dd>
<dt><span class="simpleTagLabel">Version:</span></dt>
<dd>Jakarta Messaging 2.0</dd>
<dt><span class="seeLabel">See Also:</span></dt>
<dd><a href="../../ser