Re: [Rupert]: introduction : webapp development tools

[Jari Worsley]

"Geir Magnusson Jr." wrote:
> 
> 
> If there is functionality from an existing commons component that can be
> leveraged, it will be done.  Right now there are no tools that will add
> two floating point numbers, for example, but it is something that people
> want to do when using Velocity and WebMacro.  We believe that it's not
> appropriate to be in the template language proper (just as it isn't in
> JSP proper...), so custom tools are the solution.

As an aside, for floating point math, what's wrong with the java.math
package? and using BigDecimal and BigInteger?

Or am i missing something.

Jari
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Jari Worsley
Senior Programmer
Hyperlink Interactive Ltd