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package javax.money;

/**
 * Interface representing a monetary rounding. Rounding must not necessarily represent roundings in a pure arithmetical sense. Basically a rounding
 * can scale an amount arbitrarily.
 * Implementation specification
 * Implementations of this interface must be
 * 
 *     final
 *     immutable
 *     thread-safe
 * 
 * Implementations of this interface should be
 * 
 *     serializable
 * 
 */
public interface MonetaryRounding extends MonetaryOperator{

    /**
     * Access the rounding's context, which gives more details of the rounding instances such as
     * 
     *     The rounding's name (required)
     *     Its provider (required)
     *     Its base currency
     *     its scale and rounding mode
     *     any other attributes useful to describe the rounding
     * 
     * @return the rounding's context, never null.
     */
    RoundingContext getRoundingContext();

}