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Hello;

I am developing some business classes.

It was suggested to me to use the BigDecimal type to map a NUMERIC,
DECIMAL, MONEY or SMALLMONEY database type.

I am having the following problem when using BigDecimal :

1. It does not seem very feasible to use common operators like '/' or
'-' when using BigDecimal.

 Exemple:
   "montTvaLigne = montTvaLigne + ( montLig * ( 1 + ( tauxTva / 100)));"
      generates the following error message in JBuilder 2 :
   "Error 103 : method / (java.math.BigDecimal, int) not found in class
Client."

   The same exact line works fine if I change my type declaration from
BigDecimal to double.

2. A simple affectation like :
   "cli_id = 1.0000;"
      causes
   "Error: (63) incompatible types; found: double, required:
java.math.BigDecimal"
      but
    "cli_id = new BigDecimal(1);" works.

So, to me BigDecimal doesn't appear to be very user-friendly.

What is it intendeed for ?
Do you use it as a solid alternative to double as was suggested to me ?

Thanks for any clarification;


Olivier.
Simple language question may be.