"Stephen Colebourne" <scolebou...@btopenworld.com> wrote in message news:4994bb71.9070...@btopenworld.com... > One of the items the JDK doesn't have is a Money class (despite having a > Currency class). I'm raising the question of whether others here would be > interested in creating a new component (or possibly adding it to a Java 5 > version of commons-lang). > > I have recently coded a Money class with full tests, which I have > considered releasing as a Joda-Money component. But I don't really have > the time to put into this with the JSR-310 work. If there are others at > commons that want to take what I've done and breath life into it to get it > released perhaps that might be the best way? > > I don't consider what I have done to be complete BTW. It is a basic Money > class, but I was planning on adding BigMoney, formatting and parsing too - > if I had enough time. > > One key scope point, I see this as just being to provide the value objects > and formatting. All the myriad of financial calculations shouldn't be part > of the basic commons-money, thus it would be a very small component. >
I'm definately interested even in just the basic version. But would put in time to work on the finacial calculations as well if the project wanted to go there. > To reiterate, I don't really have time to lead this or release it, so I'm > just testing the water to see if it piques anyone's interest. > > Stephen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
