Gnu-cash with Java

[marthter]

Benoit Grégoire wrote:

>On July 25, 2003 03:08 pm, Ashish Arte wrote:
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>>Sorry for being very vague in my first mail.
>>
>>What I wanted to say was: gnucash is developed in C,
>>so is there any work being done to use the gnucash
>>libraries & API to integrate them with some Java based
>>tool. This might be useful for applications(
>>especially web based ) to provide frontend and let the
>>gnucash api handle all the functionality.
>>    
>>
>
>No such work has been started.  There once was perl bindings that 
>unfortunately bitroted.  Java bindings similar to the perl ones are perfectly 
>imaginable.
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>
I'm guessing here, but if you set up GnuCash with the Postgres database 
as the back-end data store, it seems to me that it should be possible to 
write other front-ends (including Java) that just use ODBC access to 
manipulate accounts and transactions.  Of course you would have to learn 
enough about the GnuCash data models to make sure any data you changed 
from your front-end remained consistent so it would still be useable 
from the normal GnuCash UI too.

On the other hand, if that data model is very complicated, it may be 
hard to consistently SQLify your transactions in there yourself without 
corrupting the data.  In that case, the bindings idea is probably better 
because you could just call the GnuCash functions and let GnuCash worry 
about keeping the data internally consistent.

~Martin