Re: Doubts about Entity beans, Should we use them?

[Evan Ireland]

I have heard of folks who wanted 14 places after the decimal point for financial
calculations! Type 'long' has no decimal point, and type 'double' gives rounding
problems for decimal fractions.

Frank Sauer wrote:
>
> Which brings up another question that has been bugging me for
> the longest time now. Why does everyone use the BigDecimal class
> for numbers? Do we really have orders with balances requiring
> hundreds or thousands of digits? What's wrong with using the Java
> primitives, or - if you want Objects because you need an 'undefined'
> value - with the simpler wrapper classes like Integer?
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Evan Ireland              Sybase EA Server Engineering       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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