[news.eclipse.technology.ofmp] Re: Projects news

[Werner Keil <werner.keil@xxxxxxx>]

Frederic Conrotte wrote:
> Werner Keil a écrit :
> > > However, at least for Money and maybe parts of Date/Time, I have a 
> > > couple of ideas since many of them don't exist anywhere else in Java, 
> > > so it would be very beneficial if a Service or Component could be as 
> > > atomic and reusable as let's say SWT. To allow a very broad use even 
> > > in areas like Mobile Eclipse or at least Google Android which uses 
> > > Eclipse and SWT a lot in many places, too.
> >
> > To be more precise on this, proposed frameworks like Monetary Systems 
> > are a result of our EG work in the Java Community Process (JSR-275) 
> > but exceed the current scope of that JSR.
> I had a look to current JRS-275 drafts but didn't see anything about 
> Monetary Systems spec ?

I think, I answered that somewhere already. Maybe in a mail to you.

So here for the newsgroup, also to clarify, that JSR-275 itself is not 
intended to cover a Monetary System as such, but provides a solid, 
working basis for such systems.

Especially conversion between units (currencies) is included already in 
JSR-275 itself.

> > It looks like a solid Money and Currency Conversion Service is of 
> > course in scope for OFMP...?
> Yes of course, it's in the scope.

Good to hear, I'd be happy to help in this area.