A compact implementation using Java TreeMap and recursion:
import java.util.TreeMap;
public class RomanNumber {
private final static TreeMap<Integer, String> map = new TreeMap<Integer, String>();
static {
map.put(1000, "M");
map.put(900, "CM");
map.put(500, "D");
map.put(400, "CD");
map.put(100, "C");
map.put(90, "XC");
map.put(50, "L");
map.put(40, "XL");
map.put(10, "X");
map.put(9, "IX");
map.put(5, "V");
map.put(4, "IV");
map.put(1, "I");
}
public final static String toRoman(int number) {
int l = map.floorKey(number);
if ( number == l ) {
return map.get(number);
}
return map.get(l) + toRoman(number-l);
}
}
Testing:
public void testRomanConversion() {
for (int i = 1; i<= 100; i++) {
System.out.println(i+"\t =\t "+RomanNumber.toRoman(i));
}
}