How to Format and Display Number to Currency in Java - Example Tutorial

Displaying financial amount in respective currency is common requirement in Java based E-commerce applications. For example if you are selling products on-line globally, you will show price of product in their local currency rather than USD or some other currency. Storing price in every currency is not a good option because of maintenance, and more realistically fluctuation in exchange rates. That's why many of these application prefer stores price of books, electronic goods or whatever product they are selling in USD, and responsibility of converting that price to local currency and displaying is left to client side code. If your client is Java based client e.g. Swing GUI , Java FX client, or a JSP web page, you can use java.text.NumberFormat class to format currency in Java. NumberFormat class allows you to display price in multiple currency depending upon Locale supported by your Java version. All you need to do is to get correct Currency Instance based upon Locale, for example to display amount in US dollar, call NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance() method with Locale as Locale.US, similarly to display currency as UK pound sterling, pass Locale.UK and for displaying money in Japanese Yen, pass Locale.JAPAN. Once you get the correct instance of currency formatter, all you need to do is call their format() method by passing your number. We will see an example of converting one currency to other and displaying amount in multiple currency in Java. It's actually very much similar to formatting date in Java, so if you are familiar to that part, it would be easy to format currency as well.

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