Ok, so maybe it isn’t quite as easy as it sounds, but we were able to leverage an automated trading application we had previously written and the modularity of the NetBeans Rich Client Platform to create a commodity trading application that will interface with, and allow us to place trades with a new commodity broker.

Even though the original application was for the purposes of automated trading, we were able to use many of the same NetBeans plugins we had developed in order to create the new application, as well as utilize JavaFX to put a nice polished UI on the app.

The login screen is below. The commodity images on the right side of the screen scroll down the UI and represent each commodity market that we trade.

After logging in to the application, those same commodities are in a dock at the top of the window. The images have an animated effect that will fade-in a green background when the mouse moves over the component. The first table in the UI shows orders that have been sent to the broker, but have not been fully executed, and the lower table displays commodity orders that have been completely executed.

After clicking on a commodity component at the top of the screen, the user is presented with a dialog to enter details about the order which will be placed. In the case of the screenshot below, an order is being entered to purchase 50 contracts of gold.

The last screenshot displays the state of the two main tables after orders to trade gold and natural gas have been fully executed, and while an order to purchase 50 Canadian Dollar futures contracts is still in process.

And finally, the 2 minute demo below highlights the application’s functionality as well as shows off the animated transitions and other eye candy that is possible using JavaFX. I will be speaking at JavaOne at a session entitled Flexibility Breeds Complexity: Living in a Modular World [CON6767], where I will discuss this and other JavaFX applications built on the NetBeans Rich Client Platform.

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