JADE provides two distinct forms of type cast operations, each using the dot operator (.) notation. These forms are:
Primitive type conversions (for details, see "Converting Primitive Types", later in this section)
Type guards or guarded expressions (for details, see "Type Guard Expression", later in this section)
The language-intrinsic type conversions are deliberately locale-independent so that they produce the same result on any node. This enables you to write code in a locale-neutral manner, to ensure it produces the same results regardless of the locale. For details about:
Control-specific methods relating to primitive type conversion, see methods of the
Locale-dependent methods of primitive types (for example, the
Creating user-defined formats, see the