stocks-suggest is now on Java 6

My general depression on the stock market had put down all my excitement on stocks-suggest. This is the application i had been writing for a while that can suggest changes (BUY or SELL) on a given portfolio based on a set of rules;besides the fact that it is one of the most interesting architecture i have ever done. Here is the report from some of my past runs.


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Report at: Tue Jan 29 11:38:02 IST 2008
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[Report: stockName: RENUKA.NS result: BUY buyPrice: 1003.7 change: -9.700000000000045]
[Report: stockName: JPASSOCIA.NS result: BUY buyPrice: 374.5 change: -1.1999999999999886]
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Report at: Tue Jan 29 11:44:36 IST 2008
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[Report: stockName: RENUKA.NS result: BUY buyPrice: 1003.7 change: -11.700000000000045]
[Report: stockName: JPASSOCIA.NS result: BUY buyPrice: 374.5 change: -4.699999999999989]
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Report at: Sun May 10 22:35:24 EDT 2009
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No stock decisions for the moment
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Tonight, i got it compiled successfully on Java 6. Boy, it took a lot of commitment from me to finally start on this again. Latest source is at stocks-suggest google code repo.

Drools and JibX dependencies had to be updated to the latest to get rid of the Xerces Abstract method error after migrating from Java 1.5. Here is the output of mvn eclipse:eclipse for all dependencies.

o commons-logging:commons-logging:1.1
o log4j:log4j:1.2.12
o logkit:logkit:1.0.1
o avalon-framework:avalon-framework:4.1.3
o javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.3
o junit:junit:4.4
o org.drools:drools-compiler:5.0.0.M5
o org.drools:drools-core:5.0.0.M5
o org.mvel:mvel2:2.0.6
o org.drools:drools-api:5.0.0.M5
o joda-time:joda-time:1.5.2
o org.antlr:antlr-runtime:3.1.1
o org.eclipse.jdt:core:3.4.2.v_883_R34x
o janino:janino:2.5.15
o org.jibx:jibx-extras:1.2.1
o org.jibx:jibx-run:1.2.1
o org.codehaus.woodstox:wstx-asl:3.2.1
o stax:stax-api:1.0.1
o quartz:quartz:1.5.2


I am gonna work on this for a while now. Changes i intend to do in future releases.

1. Refactor test cases
2. Change rules appropriately.
3. Load it on a Spring DM server
4. Create a UI on Webflows (Not decided on the framework. Might as well do it on something simpler like Struts also)
5. De couple reader, binder, renderer, rule engine and report generation modules and have them talk to each other on Mule bus.