As a practice project I want to create a program that can give real time feedback of a certain stocks shares on my own GUI, would I need to connect to a website or something else and how could I go about planning to do this?
Welcome to the Java Programming Forums
The professional, friendly Java community. 21,500 members and growing!
The Java Programming Forums are a community of Java programmers from all around the World. Our members have a wide range of skills and they all have one thing in common: A passion to learn and code Java. We invite beginner Java programmers right through to Java professionals to post here and share your knowledge. Become a part of the community, help others, expand your knowledge of Java and enjoy talking with like minded people. Registration is quick and best of all free. We look forward to meeting you.
>> REGISTER NOW TO START POSTING
Members have full access to the forums. Advertisements are removed for registered users.
As a practice project I want to create a program that can give real time feedback of a certain stocks shares on my own GUI, would I need to connect to a website or something else and how could I go about planning to do this?
You might look into using a NYSE (or the appropriate exchange's) stock ticker service. Or maybe the stock you're interested in following has an RSS or similar service for posting changes in their stock. Check their web page to find out what's available or find an appropriate service and then look for examples on how to incorporate that into code.
keepStriving (December 20th, 2013)
Also check out the Yahoo finance API.
YahooFinanceAPIs - yahoo-finance-managed - Yahoo! Managed - The .NET Wrapper for Yahoo! WebService - Google Project Hosting
keepStriving (December 20th, 2013)
Thanks guys really appreciate your help.