JDK 9 RFR of JDK-4943627 Deprecate rounding mode integer constants in BigDecimal and their uses

[Brian Burkhalter]

Hi Joe,

On Apr 30, 2016, at 8:24 PM, joe darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:

> Please review the changes to address
> 
>    JDK-4943627 Deprecate rounding mode integer constants in BigDecimal and their uses
> 
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/4943627.0/
> 
> Since JDK 5, the java.math package has had a RoundMode

s/RoundMode/RoundingMode/

Also the more recent copyright year is not updated in RoundingMode.java.

> enum to model and manage the various rounding modes used by methods in BigDecimal (and elsewhere). Those rounding modes enum constants were added in parallel to a set of integer constants in BigDecimal previously used to model rounding modes. For each BigDecimal method which took an int rounding mode constant, a sibling method was added to take a RoundMode object.
> 
> As the synopsis of the bug implies, the time has come to deprecate the legacy int rounding mode constants and the method taking those ints as arguments.

Godspeed, legacy constants.

+1

Brian