I've run a minecraft server, and even wrote some plugins in the early days though not recently.   

I'd do it for a bounty.

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mtgox-java is a Java client API (based on Spring & Maven) for the MtGox bitcoin exchange WebSocket & HTTP services.  It is designed to be most useful for server-side or application java development.

Rather than being a 'thin' api that simply wraps HTTP calls, mtgox-java is a 'thick' api that completely hides the vagaries of the MtGox exchange and provides the developer with a 100% java and type checked interface.

Both HTTP and Websockets are supported.  Documentation, downloads and examples (including a simple trading bot) are available at the project webpage http://grantsparks.github.com/mtgox-java/.

Can you make the change more compatible with the existing api please?  For example, the fulldepth url is documented in the wiki as being...

https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/fulldepth

but I don't see that in the OP?

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I had an interesting conversation today among the other senior software engineers where I work.  We talked about exactly this topic.

I'm interested in your opinion too.  What exactly would you do to avoid what we saw today.   There is no doubt that the infrastructure at gox is failing-by-design, so I'd love to hear your ideas too.

Lets start with the event broker.  The lag is an obvious clue that its doing more work that it really has to.   What aspects of the design of this sort of system would you say are the easiest to change, the "lowest-hanging-fruit" which is probably at the core of the problem.

Even now that things are settling down, we see lag go from zero (idle) to over 20 seconds every few minutes.  This is a big clue to the issues, I think.

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I'm a professional software developer based in Australia, with 14 years of industry experience.  I'm interested in working in the bitcoin area so I'm looking for people who need programming expertise who'd like to contract me.

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Hi cryptodrifter, welcome.   Can you tell us what country you are from?

(All these newbie posts in order to post on other forums is a bit tedious)

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I tend to not use my real name on forums, just in case a flamewar gets out hand, but all of my other activities in the "bitcoin world" are done in my real name.   As a software developer, I'm a professional and my reputation is part of my identity.

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It looks like a server issue.  I get the same error (500) trying to access anything in the bitcoinj repo.

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Australian bitcoin developer here!   I hope I'll be able to post in the forums soon.

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