Sounds fun, +1. Definitely fits my "I'll join in" interest area. On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@btopenworld.com> wrote: > 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. > > 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 > >
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