Market QA Java Interface

Description

Market QA is a Thompson Finantial product. Thompson provides a large amount of finantial data that is stored on a server. This data can be accessed using a the Market QA scripting language which can be used to both query and process the data. This data was originally used by the Quantitative trading team but there where several other team that where interested in the data. The Quantitiative team programmed mainly in C++ while IT programmed in Java so there was a need to write an interface to the server using Java. The final product imported a Market QA script and returned a table that could be used th IT's data processing applications.

Challenges

This was my first large project using the Java programming language and was also my first experience using a truely object oriented process. It was also my first exposure to network communications through a programming language.

Results

At the end of the day, the program was a success but the majority of the firm decided to used a different data source so it was only used by a few teams.