Activities of the Java Grande Forum I
Two major working groups promoting standards and community actions
Numerics: Java as a language for mathematics led by Ron Boisvert and Roldan Pozo from NIST
- Changes in Java controversial handling of floating point which currently has goal of reproducible results but this leads to non optimal accuracy
- Addition of Complex types or classes
- Lightweight classes and Operator overloading -- enables implementation of complex as a class
- “Fortran rectangular multidimensional arrays” -- Java naturally has “arrays of arrays”
- High quality math libraries with agreed interfaces -- FFT, Matrices, Transcendental functions