[Chicago-talk] New system architecture

Michael Potter michael at potter.name
Mon Jun 1 10:35:22 PDT 2009


Jay,

Here is my 2 cents:  If you are intending to replace Perl with Java then
consider Groovy instead of Java.  Groovy has a lot of the benefits of Perl
(Dynamic Language), but runs on the JVM and can interface with class files
that were created with javac.

Let us know what you decide.
-- 
Michael Potter

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com> wrote:

> Hi all, need some advice.
>
> I want to build a new system.  My bro and I have a small
> equity/options trading application.  We cobbled it together in Perl
> and Oracle years ago.  Things have broken, some of the stuff we want
> to change.  Ultimately we want to start over.
>
> I'm just trying to decide on what architecture to use going forward.
> I know this is a pretty wide question.
>
> Most (all) of the processes will run on a single box.  I don't really
> have an idea of which presentation route we'll go (full rich client
> maybe using Java/Swing, maybe a Java Script client using GWT, maybe
> plain HTML).  The client will probably request functionality from the
> server.
>
> I was thinking we'd do the whole API for asking for quotes, requesting
> analytics, inserting transactins...  via HTTP (SOAP).
>
> Can anyone give me their thoughts on their lessons learned, maybe
> routes to try, stuff I should be thinking of...
>
> (again I know this is pretty open ended, but I'm interested in what
> others have done with success)
>
> Thanks
> Jay
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