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Hi Simon,
Simon said:
Attempts to solve UOM (you do mean units of measure, I hope?) globally
are
likely a horrible mistake. (Think WXS date/time types.) However,
building
systems which make it possible to solve UOM locally makes a lot more
sense
to me than "well, it's an int, but who the hell knows how many of what
it
represents?"
Local representation for local information makes a lot more sense to me
than any effort to globalize the representation by converting everything
to
a common format. People who insist on building centralized arbiters of
information probably think differently, but since I find the centralized
arbiter model repulsive in itself, I don't think it's particularly
interesting. (Nor do I care what SAP and Baan and PeopleSoft find
convenient.)
Didier replies:
Just curious and wanting to understand your need.
Do you want to create a java type (i.e. class) to describe/manipulate
the geographic coordinates? So to speak, the element referring to the
geographical coordinate would map to a class. Is it your intent?
Cheers
Didier PH Martin
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