Re: Sun vs. Microsoft JVMs

From: Roedy Green (look-on_at_mindprod.com.invalid)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:30:05 GMT

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:56:55 +0200, Rogan Dawes <discard@dawes.za.net>
wrote or quoted :

>
>If you are checking the float that the user enters has 2 decimal points
>(e.g. a currency), then serialise it and send it to the server, which
>then uses that number, it is not important to check that the number is
>still only precise to 2 decimal points?

You don't send a float. You send an int or long scaled by 100.

All you need is the bounds check. 

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