[moneydance] java instead of python script code and, transaction download and matching hooks

[Fuzzy Fox]

Robert Winter <moneydance at winter-home.info> wrote:
>
> I've dug into the extensions stuff enough to realize that an extension
> is written in Java, though in my (weak) defense, please note that the
> word 'Java' is not mentioned on this page: 
> http://moneydance.com/developer, nor is any mention made of the sample
> code in the development kit.  Seeing all the python information, I got
> fixed on python based code.

You were probably confused by the existence of the Python Plugin for
Moneydance, which is actually not "true" Python, but actually Jython,
which is probably close enough unless you depend on some external
packages being available.

If you want to write a full-blown extension, you would have to write it
in Java, but if you just want to write a quick & dirty script, you can
do so with the Python Plugin.  The example scripts and the Moneydance
Developer info are quite helpful in figuring out how to access your MD
data from within Python (Jython).

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