Re: [ICU4J-discussion] Does it make sense to use ICU4J only partially?

[Alan L. <al...@fi...>]

Yes, it's possible, however you will find that the DecimalFormat class depends on the BigDecimal class.  You can remove this dependency by editing the DecimalFormat and NumberFormat source.

Alan Liu - IBM

At 06:07 PM 5/16/2001 +0200, Schilling, Bernhard wrote:
>Dear ICU experts, 
>
>we are currently discussing the possible use of ICU4J. One question that
>arises is: Does it make sense to use  ICU4J only partially? Do the different
>packages in any sense depend on each other, or can we decide one by one if
>we use it or not? 
>
>To be more concrete: Can we use the com.ibm.text package, but not use the
>com.ibm.math package which contains a modified BigDecimal implementation? 
>
>All comments are appreciated,
>
>Bernhard Schilling
>SAP AG 
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