I am all for commons money. It sounds like a great economic stimulus plan. If you'd like to share some with me, please write a check to my home address.
Paul On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
