Announcement: jPortfolioView, an extension to handle your Portfolio easily

[Charles Day]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Andreas Reichel <andreas.reichel at i-kit.de>
wrote:

> hello everybody,
>
> after long time I used GnuCash intensively I felt it's time to pay back
> a little bit of all the great work.
> I would like to share a simple program I wrote to improve the handling
> of the stocks and the portfolio in GnuCash. I call it jPortfolioView.
>
> It reads your porfolio directly from a GnuCash file and shows the
> balance, the profits or losses and the return within a tablegrid.
>
> Further it provides comfortable forms to add new assets directly into
> your portfolio. For your convinience, the necessary accounts are defined
> globaly
> as preferences. To add an asset you just need to type the ISIN, the
> price, the number of shares and the fees.
>
> Last but not least you can update the prices with jPortfolioView
> directly from the internet. Therefore an transparent xpath/regex
> mechanismn is used. All parameters (url, xpath, regex) of any
> datasource are configurable inside a XML file. Further there is a tool
> to analyze the DOM structure of any datasource and to conclude these
> parameters.
>

You have my congratulations, as your program obviously fulfills a need,
inspired by some ease-of-use issues in GnuCash investment handling. However,
these improvements would be nicer (and easier to use) if they were available
from within GnuCash itself rather than a separate program.  I have been
looking at the GnuCash code recently with this in mind. Feel free to lend a
hand as time permits. Since you can program in Java, then I imagine that you
would learn C very quickly since the two are related.

Cheers,
Charles


>
> Please see http://jportfolioview.berlios.de for further information or
> send an E-Mail to me.
>
> Thank you very much, best regards
> Andreas Reichel
>
>