Re: Connecting to IB

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Sfl

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May 7, 2013, 4:41:17 AM5/7/13

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Hello Brian,

Yes, you are missing the api-examples.jar, you have to add it in your classpath library.

Seems that InteractiveBrokers moved to GitHub and they took away the api-examples.jar.

Unfortunately I cannot embed this api-examples.jar library in distribution files due to license restriction :-/

We are going to fix this issue immediately, we will post here within a day with detailed instructions on how to embed IB api and run the HelloIB example.

Thank you

Alberto

Sfl

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May 7, 2013, 6:59:18 AM5/7/13

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The issue has been fixed in the MASTER repository of GitHub and it will be available since tbg-Quant-v1.1beta5

We are now supporting IB API version 9.68

You just have to add jtsclient.jar library to the /lib folder.

jtsclient.jar can be found inside the twsapi_unixmac_968.jar you can download from http://interactivebrokers.github.io/#

thank you

Alberto

Brian Sherman

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May 7, 2013, 8:58:40 AM5/7/13

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Thanks Alberto for the quick response. I deleted my earlier post because it was displaying my IB Client ID and I didn't want that there.

I'll paste it below again for reference without that information.

Thanks for your help.

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Hi,

I'm trying to connect TBG to the IB API. I copied over the com.ib source folder and can get the IB java test client to run, but cannot get TBG-Quant to run successfully

When I try to run the HelloIB example I'm getting the exceptions below. Am I missing a jar? Thanks for your help.

../config/tbg-Quant.properties not found, checking ClassPath...

tbg-Quant.properties not found in ClassPath, loading default settings (inMemoryDB).

Cannot find config.proprieties file, proceeding without it.

Found 7 symbols!

Strategy ID : HelloIB

Strategy HelloIB started [Mon May 06 21:53:07 EDT 2013]

Strategy Description: InteractiveBrokers tick streaming

onStart():

Using default storeService...DEFAULT_STORESERVICE

RunID: [UserID:tbg][RunID:1][Description:InteractiveBrokers tick streaming][StrategyName:HelloIB][StrategyClass:HelloIB]

MarketDataEventType setted to TICK_EVENT

Pass-Through CEP Provider

Connecting to InteractiveBrokers

Server Version:67

TWS Time at connection:20130506 21:53:06 EST

Exception in thread "EReader" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/ib/client/examples/util/RequestIDManager

Active MarketDataFeed...

Starting up for symbol XOM

Starting up for symbol CVX

Starting up for symbol MS

Starting up for symbol IBM

Starting up for symbol BHP

Starting up for symbol LMT

Starting up for symbol GS

at com.tbg.adapter.interactivebrokers.broker.InteractiveBrokersAdapter.nextValidId(InteractiveBrokersAdapter.java:484)

at com.ib.client.EReader.processMsg(EReader.java:642)

at com.ib.client.EReader.run(EReader.java:70)

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.ib.client.examples.util.RequestIDManager

at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)

at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423)

at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356)

... 3 more

Exception in thread "Thread-5" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/ib/client/examples/util/RequestIDManager

at com.tbg.adapter.interactivebrokers.broker.InteractiveBrokersAdapter.fetchMarketData(InteractiveBrokersAdapter.java:106)