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Giro Explorer

Giro Explorer is an offline browser for Mijnpostbank.nl, the online banking service for customers of the Postbank in The Netherlands.

With Mijnpostbank.nl, one can download a record of recent transactions. Giro Explorer visualizes these records.

Features

• Reads Girotel Online and Mijn Postbank CSV files.
• Visualize transactions in graphs and charts.
• Multi-lingual (currently dutch and english).
• Easy to run with Java Webstart.
• Free (no nags, commercials or spyware).
• Open Source (?).
• Written in Java for platform-independence.
• Windows-users friendly:
• Responsive user interface thanks to SWT.
• Windows look and feel.
• Windows executable for launching the program.
• Preferences are stored in windows registry.
• Windows installer.

Prerequisites

For now, only a win32 version is available. This should work on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It has not been tested on other platforms.

• Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
• Java 1.4 or higher. Get it here.

Download

• Download Windows installer from the project page at sourceforge.
• Webstart GiroExplorer for win32 immediately. (Requires Java Webstart. If you have Java 1.4 or above you should be fine.)

Open Source

Giro Explorer is open source software. This means that the sourcecode is freely available, and that anyone can use it for their own purposes. Giro Explorer was also developed using only free, open source tools, and makes use of some open source libraries. Tools and libraries used:

• SWT, for the user-interface
• JFreeChart, for the charts.
• Ostermiller Utilities, for the CSV parsing.
• NullSoft Installer System (NSIS), for the Windows installer.
• JSmooth, for the Windows executable.
• UPX, for bringing down the Windows executable and installer sizes.
• Eclipse, for the unbeatable Java IDE and CVS client.
• Ant, for the automated build-test-release cycle.
• The Gimp, for the graphics.
• VIM, for quick editing jobs
• JEdit, mostly for its awesome XML editing capabilities.
• FileZilla, for getting this website online.