Best practice to represent Money (value + currency) in Grails

Question

I\'m not much familiar to Java Currency type, and how it being used in Grails. Though, I\'m yet to use it, I saw a tag to use in the views.

Answer 1

You should use BigDecimal. Groovy and Grails has excellent native support for it as a datatype on GORM domain classes as well. For reasoning behind using it, see here

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