Scott,

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I agree. In this regard I am a snob. So are the people from IB because they stick on their concept writing their client in Java which works pretty well in my opinion ;-)

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I was following the discussion on this thread about writing software to the IB API in an open source manner.? This will never take off if you are just extending some quickly hacked VB-scripts.? You rather would need a well designed basic model from which you go on by refinement (without disturbing the interfaces defined in the first place).? Java (and may be C# in the future ;-) is an excellent candidate for such a task. ?I don’t know of any open available model written in Java (I know there is one in Eiffel, which is rather academic in my opinion).

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So I am just working on such a model and if there is anybody on the thread who is interested in cooperating I would be happy to communicate my ideas off-line.

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Best regards

Gernot

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