The purpose of a Convertor is to convert between Object and String
representations of the same thing. For example, convert
Longs or Dates to strings, and vice
versa. The behaviour of this conversion process can depend on the
user's Locale.
If you need to do mass conversion of a lot of values, it may be
beneficial to pass a Convertor.FormatCache object to the convert methods.
Some convertors need to build and configure parser or formatting objects,
which can be expensive if it needs to be done repeatedly.