diff --git a/CHANGES.current b/CHANGES.current
index 5fd6d6135..a30b026dc 100644
--- a/CHANGES.current
+++ b/CHANGES.current
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ See the RELEASENOTES file for a summary of changes in each release.
 Version 3.0.6 (in progress)
 ===========================
 
+2015-05-10: wsfulton
+            [Java] Fix multi-argument typemaps (char *STRING, size_t LENGTH)
+            so that they can be applied to a wider range of types. Fixes #385.
+
 2015-05-07: olly
 	    [Python] Deal with an integer as the default value of a bool
 	    parameter in the C++ prototype.  Fixes github #327, reported by
diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/director_binary_string.i b/Examples/test-suite/director_binary_string.i
index f842dc2c7..17bdc1b64 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/director_binary_string.i
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/director_binary_string.i
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 %apply (char *STRING, size_t LENGTH) { (char *dataBufferAA, int sizeAA) };
 %apply (char *STRING, size_t LENGTH) { (char *dataBufferBB, int sizeBB) };
+%apply (char* STRING, size_t LENGTH) { (const void* data, size_t datalen) };
 
 %inline %{
 #include <stdlib.h>
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ public:
     if (dataBufferBB)
       memset(dataBufferBB, -1, sizeBB);
   }
+  virtual void writeData(const void* data, size_t datalen) = 0;
 };
 
 class Caller {
@@ -50,6 +52,17 @@ public:
   void call_null() {
     _callback->run(NULL, 0, NULL, 0);
   }
+  int callWriteData() {
+    int sum = 0;
+    if (_callback) {
+      char* aa = (char*)malloc(BUFFER_SIZE_AA);
+      memset(aa, 9, BUFFER_SIZE_AA);
+      _callback->writeData(aa, BUFFER_SIZE_AA);
+      for (int i = 0; i < BUFFER_SIZE_AA; i++)
+        sum += aa[i];
+    }
+    return sum;
+  }
 };
 
 %}
diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/java/director_binary_string_runme.java b/Examples/test-suite/java/director_binary_string_runme.java
index 962073367..14982efc2 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/java/director_binary_string_runme.java
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/java/director_binary_string_runme.java
@@ -17,11 +17,15 @@ public class director_binary_string_runme {
     Callback callback = new DirectorBinaryStringCallback();
     caller.setCallback(callback);
     int sum = caller.call();
+    int sumData = caller.callWriteData();
     caller.delCallback();
 
     if (sum != 9*2*8 + 13*3*5)
       throw new RuntimeException("Unexpected sum: " + sum);
 
+    if (sumData != 9*2*8)
+      throw new RuntimeException("Unexpected sum: " + sum);
+
     new Callback().run(null, null);
     callback = new DirectorBinaryStringCallback();
     caller.setCallback(callback);
@@ -45,5 +49,13 @@ class DirectorBinaryStringCallback extends Callback {
       for (int i = 0; i < dataBufferBB.length; i++)
         dataBufferBB[i] = (byte)(dataBufferBB[i] * 3);
   }
+
+  @Override
+  public void writeData(byte[] dataBufferAA)
+  {
+    if (dataBufferAA != null)
+      for (int i = 0; i < dataBufferAA.length; i++)
+        dataBufferAA[i] = (byte)(dataBufferAA[i] * 2);
+  }
 }
 
diff --git a/Lib/java/java.swg b/Lib/java/java.swg
index 9374f5783..37b3fa940 100644
--- a/Lib/java/java.swg
+++ b/Lib/java/java.swg
@@ -1348,6 +1348,7 @@ SWIG_PROXY_CONSTRUCTOR(true, true, SWIGTYPE)
 %typemap(directorargout) (char *STRING, size_t LENGTH)
 %{(jenv)->GetByteArrayRegion($input, 0, $2, (jbyte *)$1);
 (jenv)->DeleteLocalRef($input);%}
+%typemap(javadirectorin, descriptor="[B") (char *STRING, size_t LENGTH) "$jniinput"
 %apply (char *STRING, size_t LENGTH) { (char *STRING, int LENGTH) }
 
 /* java keywords */