complex-data-types

According to the chart here , the equivalent data type in Java to C#'s Decimal is BigDecimal . Is this really so? What's up with the "Big" preamble? There doesn't seem to be a "SmallDecimal" or "LittleDecimal" (let alone "MediumSizedDecimal") in Java. I must say, though, that chart was the clearest thing I found on the subject; the other links here and here and here were about as clear to me as the Mississippi River after a torrential tempest. Yep - that's the corresponding type. Since you are using Java after C# - don't be too surprised to find little nuances like this - or be too upset when

I've run into a problem trying to return an object that holds a collection of childobjects that again can hold a collection of grandchild objects. I get an error, 'connection forcibly closed by host'. Is there any way to make this work? I currently have a structure resembling this: pseudo code: Person: IEnumerable<Order> Order: IEnumerable<OrderLine> All three objects have the DataContract attribute and all public properties i want exposed (including the IEnumerable's) have the DataMember attribute. I have multiple OperationContract's on my service and all the methods returning a single object

I have a FeedbackViewModel that contains a list of questions: public class FeedbackViewModel { public List<QuestionViewModel> Questions { get; set; } } This QuestionViewModel is an object that can be inherited by 5 different types of questions public class QuestionViewModel { public string QuestionText { get; set; } public string QuestionType { get; set; } } An example of one of the inheriting question types: public class SingleQuestionViewModel : QuestionViewModel { public string AnswerText { get; set; } } In the HttpGet of the Index action in the controller I get the questions from the