The author, Mr. Sam Natarajan, is the Founder and CEO of Harvest Technology Corporation (www.HarvestTechnology.com), a leading software solutions provider for financial services clients. Mr. Natarajan has 20 years of experience developing technology solutions in the financial services industry. He holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from New York University. Mr. Natarajan worked for over 12 years at Merrill Lynch building web applications, global databases, financial models, and trading and risk management systems. In addition, his time at Merrill Lynch included four years as a derivatives trader in the Fixed Income and Equity divisions. His principal duties as CEO of Harvest Technology Corporation include the oversight and management of our development team of Java programmers, XML developers, data modelers, and project managers.
Since its inception, XML has gained a strong foothold on Wall Street, but the
use of XSLT for financial applications has been selective. This article
reviews a real-world case study involving XSLT (and other "new" technology
tools) that led to impressive business results.
Our technical solution included the development of a complete rules engine in
XSLT, XML parsing in Java using DOM/SAX, a persistent store of XML data
within a relational database (Oracle), a customizable report writer (Cognos),
and a complete runtime environment in Unix. A two-person team completed the
project work over a period of 12 weeks - an incredible feat, and one that
would never have been possible with "traditional" programming paradigms. XML,
XSLT, and Java technologies are worthy of your attention; read further to see
how they helped us to deliver an innovative solution for one of our impor... (more)
The author, Mr. Sam Natarajan, is the Founder and CEO of Harvest Technology Corporation (www.HarvestTechnology.com), a leading software solutions provider for financial services clients. Mr. Natarajan has 20 years of experience developing technology solutions in the financial services industry. He holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from New York University. Mr. Natarajan worked for over 12 years at Merrill Lynch building web applications, global databases, financial models, and trading and risk management systems. In addition, his time at Merrill Lynch included four years as a derivatives trader in the Fixed Income and Equity divisions. His principal duties as CEO of Harvest Technology Corporation include the oversight and management of our development team of Java programmers, XML developers, data modelers, and project managers.
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