I don't think we want to change that (yet?)
But I just read at
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/math/BigDecimal.html :
<<Using the integer fields in this class (such as |ROUND_HALF_UP| <
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/math/BigDecimal.html#ROUND_HALF_UP>)
to represent rounding mode is largely obsolete; the enumeration values of the |RoundingMode| |enum|, (such as |RoundingMode.HALF_UP|
<
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/math/RoundingMode.html#HALF_UP>) should be used instead.>>
Just saying
Jacques