Date Posted: March 19, 1999
Overview
What is NumberFormat?
NumberFormat has graduated!
This technology has been incorporated into International Components for Unicode for Java (ICU4J) & ICU (ICU4C). ICU4J is an open-source project for Java Internationalization/Unicode support classes that add onto the JDK. ICU4C is a set of C/C++ libraries for Internationalization/Unicode support.About the technology author(s)
These Java internationalization and text processing classes were developed by engineers in the International and Text group at the IBM Center for Java Technology in Cupertino, CA. This group has several missions, including working closely with Sun to maintain and enhance the international classes in the Java Developer's Kit, developing the corresponding IBM Classes for Unicode in C and C++, providing support for Ibidirectional and complex text in JDK 1.2, and working on research projects, such as those here on alphaWorks, for possible inclusion in future versions of the JDK and/or ICU.
Alan Liu (Big NumberFormat) works in the Java Technology Center on internationalization and JDK support. He has been working with C++ and Java frameworks since 1992, when he joined Apple's Pink team, which was the predecessor of Taligent. Dr. Liu holds an MD from UCSD and a EE from Stanford.
