Should the interfaces that accept a wstring also somehow state the maximum length of that data string? This is necessary for the implementation to know the maximum number of wide characters that may need to be stored in a persistence repository. e.g. Currency.mnemonic is three? This also includes the following : Currency.name, Currency.fractionName, Currency.symbol, Currency.fractionSymbol, Currency.description, Currency.ISOVersion, a locale wstring, ExchangeRate.rateType, CurrencyBook.publishedVersion, MoneyFormatter.formattingString, MoneyFormatter.groupingSymbol, MoneyFormatter.negativePrefixSymbol, MoneyFormatter.radixSymbol.

Summary: DAmountOfTime difference(in DTime anotherTime) does not support an
implementation properly as the difference between two points in time is a
DamountOfTime instance and DamountOfTime represents an “absolute (positive)
amount of time”. Thus, either DamountOfTime must be able to represent an
amount of time that is less than zero, or the following interfaces must be
available.
· Propose the following additional interfaces:
boolean equal(in CBO::Dtime otherObject);
void setEqual(in CBO::Dtime otherObject);
boolean less(in CBO::Dtime otherObject);
boolean lessEqual(in CBO::Dtime otherObject);
boolean greater(in CBO::Dtime otherObject);
boolean greaterEqual(in CBO::Dtime otherObject);

Summary: The toWeeks(), toDays(), and toHours()operations return the amount to the
nearest whole unit. The toMinutes() and toSeconds() operations are not
specified in the same way, and the commentary for these two operations uses
such poor English that the intention is not clear.

Summary: Issue Description: Cannot represent milliseconds or any sub-second
precision

DO_NOT_ROUND would be more explicit and prohibit confusion as the contraction might cause some confusion.

Need the ability to clone Money from existing Money

Replace DDecimal with CORBA fixed type.

Replace DTime in FBCCurrency with struct

All throughout the spec it references ISO 4217:1995, it would be better to reference the latest ISO 4217 standard (i.e. no hard-coded date/year).

Summary: Issue Description: Change name of interface to CBO::Decimal.

Summary: The equals/setEquals() interfaces accept a base class CORBA Object as the
parameter type. The instance passed must be narrow’ed to a DDecimal, DTime,
etc. for the interface to carry on with its task. This is not possible as
the Ddecimal, Dtime, etc. are not IDL Interfaces, they are IDL Value types.
Since an IDL Value type does not derive from Object, the narrow’ing is not
possible. This also affects other portions of the CBO … DCurrency, DMoney,
etc. Also, equals(in Object anObject) causes a problem in a Java
implementation as every Java class inherits from java.lang.Object. The
boolean equals(Object obj) method supported by java.lang.Object cannot be
overriden AND additional throw an FbcException. Thus, equals(), setEquals()
should be changed wherever defined to be equal(), setEqual().

Summary: The CBOException type currently prohibits the called software from
informing the calling software as to the source of the problem that raises
a CBOException. e.g. If CBO::DTime::setSeconds(63) is called, a
CBOException will be raised, but the caller cannot query the CBOException
caught for its exception type or description as CBOException does not
currently support these constructs. In the case where many arguments are
presented to a method, the caller will not know which specific argument is
causing the problem.

Summary: The Currency submission indicates that a specific Currency instance that
does not have an expiration date will be noted with an expiration date of
99/99/9999. This attribute is handled via a CBO::Dtime instance, but a
CBO::Dtime instance cannot be created or mutated to represent 99/99/9999.
e.g. The CBO::Dtime::setMonth(mon) expects 1 <= 12, etc. Would probably be
easiest to have two operations on CBO::Dtime to handle this. These could
be:
void setUnspecified() – might be handled in an implementation as
99/99/9999.
boolean isUnspecified() – insulates the consumer from knowing how
the notion of “unspecified” is implemented.

Summary: The setYear(in long year) interface is described such that year is
expressed in four digit form. Does this then mean that year must be >= 1000
or that year indicates an absolute year after christ? e.g. 99 means 99 and
not 1999?

Summary: Cannot set precision to something other than milliseconds, as DAmountOfTime
cannot represent sub-second resolution. Cannot set the millisecond portion
of the point in time as the Factory does not take the number of
milliseconds as an argument, nor does the init() method.

Summary: Should the subsystem/singleton components (i.e. StateIdManager,
CurrencyBook, ExchangeRateManager, MoneyFormatter, MoneyCalculator) all be
published separately to the CORBAservices Naming Service?

Summary: Text needs to be added to describe what causes an exception to be raised
for a given interface, when the semantics/preconditions for the interface
have been violated (vs. exceptions specific to a vendor
’s implementation).
e.g. Money.[gs]etValue(), MoneyFormatter.[gs]etFormattingString(), etc. It
appears that most every interface raises (FbcException), but quite often
the text which describes which exceptions can be raised, in terms of
ExceptionType and under what conditions the exception is raised/thrown, has
not been detailed. A detailed pass through the entire FbcCurrency spec
should be conducted with attention paid to each interface and its exception
generating details.

Summary: Now that the CBO submission no longer exists, we need to add the text for DTime and DDecimal
from the CBO submission into the Currency Spec.

Summary: Issue Description: Change name of interface to CBO::Time.

Summary: Make the following interface changes:
boolean equal(in DDecimal otherObject);
void setEqual(in DDecimal otherObject);

Summary: Issue Description: Clarify comparisons of two CBO::Ddecimal values on
equality (i.e. 2.0 equal to 2.000)
– regardless of scale factor.

Summary: The idl for CBO::DTime needs the method: long getYear()

Summary: Clairfy comparisons of two CBO::Ddecimal values on equality (i.e. 2.0 equal to 2.000)
regardless of scale factor