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This project grew out of my desire to use a financial package on my home PC (running windows 98), my work PC (running windows NT 4.0) and Linux.
I bought Quicken 2000 a while ago, and was using this, but couldn't get it working under WINE (I'm waiting for plex86 to be released). Also, I didn't have admin privileges at work, and so Quicken wouldn't install there.
This led me to start thinking about a solution in Java. Of course the first thing I did was do a search on SourceForge and Freshmeat to see what was already around, but there were no Java open source personal finance apps, so here we are!

I decided to write this in Java for it's cross-platform capabilities.
I am using Netbeans as my development environment, but compiling with sun's JDK 1.3. I will not be testing this system on any earlier version of the JDK.

I have a working prototype, and would like to release a beta version in a few months.

I will try to upload some screenshots as soon as possible.

While your here you might want to look at the UML diagram (drawn with dia 0.86 for windows),
or the draft design document written in OpenOffice, and saved as html.

Requirements:

• JSX for XML serialization of the data.
• log4j for logging and tracing ability.
• JDK 1.3 as I haven't tested on any other JDK version.
• JavaHelp system for the online help guide.

ToDo:

• DataEngine - Finish backend data structures
  1. Accounts
  2. Transactions
  3. Recurring transactions
  4. Account categories
  5. Transaction categories
  6. Currencies
  7. Financial Institute info
  8. Data persistance
  9. importing
     • CSV files
     • QIF files
       The format document is from the Quicken website
     • PalmCoins files
     • PCash files
     • GnuCash files
• UI -
  1. Main window
  2. Accounts list
  3. Transaction list
  4. Recurring transaction list
  5. Account categories list
  6. Transaction categories list
  7. Hide ID columns
  8. In-cell editing
  9. Put strings into resource file
  10. use a TreeTable
  11. Startup progess bar/window
  12. Preferences dialog
  13. Reports
  14. Create a pretty icon and logo
• Help / Documentation -
  1. User Guide
  2. Getting started
  3. Online / context sensitive help
• General -
  1. update this website
  2. learn CVS & sourceforge specific CVS, so that I can put the sources and docs onto sourceforge properly
  3. remove deprecation warnings