"Diethelm Guallar, Gonzalo" wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My boss asked me if we could place a stock ticker on
> a Jetspeed-based site, and I just said "yes", without
> knowing jacksh*t about how a ticker works...
:)
> Is this possible with the current Jetspeed portlets?
> If yes, how could it be done? If not, could anybody
> asses what it would take to add it?
>
> Where would I get a source of information for such a
> thing? Do the stock markets make this information
> available on the Internet? If yes, do they use some
> kind of standardized protocol? If not, anybody has
> a suggestion?
>
> Hopefully, someone here will illuminate my ignorance.
<snip>
I have thought about this. Basically it would require a Daemon that
kept a Hashtable to resolve tickers -> prices and then a portlet would
just provide a UI to this.
The problem is that all this stock information is copyright NASDAQ, NYSE
so there isn't a public information store :(.
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