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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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