> > 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...
>
> :)
I've gotten so used to the answer "it can be done" when
it comes to Open Source, that I can see I'll very likely
get in deep sh*t one of these days...
> 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.
Ok. We could have a separate daemon, or we could make this
part of the feeds daemon, right?
> The problem is that all this stock information is copyright
> NASDAQ, NYSE
> so there isn't a public information store :(.
Well, that's not really a problem. If there is no source
for the information, the question is moot, and someone
at our client's site will have to figure out a way to
get to it: pay for it, type it in, whatever. I'm more
interested in the technical side of it. Do you know if
there is a standard format for this kind of information?
Also, what do companies like Yahoo do about this? They
do show stock information for companies on their web
pages; do they pay for it?
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