I have a Money class that I can contribute to get the ball rolling.
Steven Caswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] a.k.a Mungo Knotwise of Michel Delving "One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them..." > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:scolebourne@;btopenworld.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:29 PM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: [lang] Money/Units/Quantities [was Re: Conversion utilities] > > > http://www.dautelle.com/jade is the most well known units and > quantities package. It also follows the JSR on the subject. > In some ways, it would be nice to see this work brought under > the Jakarta Commons group, as there is much useful code there. > > Even if we don't intend to have a whole units package in > [lang], we should probably have Money and Currency classes. > They are pretty fundamental to many business applications. (I > don't think that a [money] is required here > ??) > > Stephen > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 7:54 PM > Subject: Re: Conversion utilities > > > > > > > > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Jeff Varszegi wrote: > > > > > Janek, > > > > > > I made an interface called Range that is supported by > classes called > > > ComparableRange etc. The ComparableRange class can use > any objects > > > that support Comparable (or, alternately, any objects with a > > > supplied Comparator), and I also made specific versions > for Date and > > > Double to > > > > +1. Why did no one think of this before? We're all fined one weeks > > +pay. > > > > > eliminate unnecessary casting. I needed the Date one for > code I'm > > > writing. I didn't get the time to implement any for > primitive types > > > yet. > > > > > Range supports disjoint ranges of values, checking to see > if a value > > > falls within the range, merging two ranges, etc. > > > > So this is like NumberRange, but genericises it and makes it cool? > > > > > I will send my code as soon as I can-- right now I'm setting up a > > > home network, and my laptop isn't on it yet. In the > meantime, can > > > you post the CurrencyRange code you've got? Thanks a lot. I > > > definitely think it will be of general-purpose > application. I don't > > > know of any quantities library either, but I'd be > thrilled to take a > > > look at one. > > > > Jade's the only one I've heard of. By a guy over in .fr I > think. For > > quantities that is, always heard good things of it. > > > > Hen > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:commons-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
