bytes of a string in java?

Question:
In java if i have a String x how can i calculate the number of bytes in that string?

As such, your question doesn't make any sense, since a string is a list of characters (i.e. code points).
The number of bytes taken to represent the string depends entirely on which encoding you use to turn it into bytes.

That said, you can turn the string into a byte array and then look at its size as follows:

// The input string for this test
final String string = "Hello World";

// Check length, in characters
System.out.println(string.length()); // prints "11"

// Check encoded sizes
final byte[] utf8Bytes = string.getBytes("UTF-8");
System.out.println(utf8Bytes.length); // prints "11"

final byte[] utf16Bytes= string.getBytes("UTF-16");
System.out.println(utf16Bytes.length); // prints "24"

final byte[] utf32Bytes = string.getBytes("UTF-32");
System.out.println(utf32Bytes.length); // prints "44"

final byte[] isoBytes = string.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
System.out.println(isoBytes.length); // prints "11"

final byte[] winBytes = string.getBytes("CP1252");
System.out.println(winBytes.length); // prints "11"

So you see, even a simple "ASCII" string can have different number of bytes in its representation, depending which encoding is used. Use whichever character set you're interested in for your case, as the argument to getBytes().
And don't fall into the trap of assuming that UTF-8 represents every character as a single byte, as that's not true either:

final String interesting = "\uF93D\uF936\uF949\uF942"; // Chinese ideograms

// Check length, in characters
System.out.println(interesting.length()); // prints "4"

// Check encoded sizes
final byte[] utf8Bytes = interesting.getBytes("UTF-8");
System.out.println(utf8Bytes.length); // prints "12"

final byte[] utf16Bytes= interesting.getBytes("UTF-16");
System.out.println(utf16Bytes.length); // prints "10"

final byte[] utf32Bytes = interesting.getBytes("UTF-32");
System.out.println(utf32Bytes.length); // prints "16"

final byte[] isoBytes = interesting.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
System.out.println(isoBytes.length); // prints "4" (probably encoded "????")

final byte[] winBytes = interesting.getBytes("CP1252");
System.out.println(winBytes.length); // prints "4" (probably encoded "????")

(Note that if you don't provide a character set argument, the platform's default character set is used. This might be useful in some contexts, but in general you should avoid depending on defaults, and always use an explicit character set when encoding/decoding is required.)