Financial Software

[GarbageGigo]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to make a financial software in VC++. Right now I am
thinking small but later on it should be able to handle as many
transactions as possible. It should also be able to use multiple
processors if any. For the database, I am thinking of using a free
database like MySql. I am thinking of making the core in C++ while the
user interface would be web-based -- i.e. java.

As I am pretty new to windows development in C++, any advice on what
to use would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks & Regards,

 

[Öö Tiib]

I am trying to make a financial software in VC++. Right now I am
thinking small but later on it should be able to handle as many
transactions as possible. It should also be able to use multiple
processors if any. For the database, I am thinking of using a free
database like MySql. I am thinking of making the core in C++ while the
user interface would be web-based -- i.e. java.

Are you kidding? What financial problems of what institutions is your
software going to solve?

As I am pretty new to windows development in C++, any advice on what
to use would be greatly appreciated.

Try to get your programming skill up so you get employed as a software
developer for someone who deals with finances local to you. It is kind
of hard and expensive to self-educate in ways of that trade as
(e-mail address removed).

 

[Sprechen sie von C++]

Corporations use Excel largely for financial modelling.

 

[Jorgen Grahn]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to make a financial software in VC++. Right now I am
thinking small but later on it should be able to handle as many
transactions as possible. It should also be able to use multiple
processors if any.

Even if it turns out that your program will not be CPU-bound but
I/O-bound?

For the database, I am thinking of using a free
database like MySql. I am thinking of making the core in C++ while the
user interface would be web-based -- i.e. java.

Web interfaces do not imply Java. Plenty of languages are used.
Perhaps not so much C++ though.

As I am pretty new to windows development in C++, any advice on what
to use would be greatly appreciated.

/Jorgen

 

[James Kanze]

Even if it turns out that your program will not be CPU-bound but
I/O-bound?

Maybe. The problem is that "financial software" is vast; there
are many different applications which can be considered
"financial software". Since he mentions transactions, one can
suppose that 1) it is I/O-bound, and 2) it will be
multithreaded, so it will automatically use multiple processors
if present. But it's far from clear what he is talking about:
I've worked on at least three different financial software, and
all three had radically different requirements, because they
addressed radically different issues.

Web interfaces do not imply Java. Plenty of languages are used.
Perhaps not so much C++ though.

The most important advice I can give is to drop Windows if you
intend to do any transaction related software. It isn't
designed for it.