Source code and several questions from beginner

Hello Forum, My insurance company is searching and testing several modelisation tools. As actuary, I am in charge to test Risk analytics and I have some questions I did not clearly find in the manual: 1) Source Code: a) Where can I find it? b) I am just an actuary (and not a IT-developper) and I never worked with Grails, Groovy, Git or IntelliJ IDEA or whatever... I already created some application with C#, C++, VBA But not with JAVA. Do you think I can develop some particular component or to add some characteristics (as new distributions as explained in the how tos) without learning about Grails, Groovy, Git or IDEA? 2) PODRA When I open riskanalytics, I see the PODRA model but I can not create a new blank model. Is that normal? How can I resolve it? Thanks. Laurent

Hi Laurent

thanks for asking the forum.

First of all the manual is available as pdf.

1. The complete source code is available at http://github.com/pillarone/     
   I am currently updating the recipe how-to setup IDEA with this new versioning system.
2. Extending RiskAnalytics: As an actuary you will most probably want to extend the business logic. The manual describes the basic concepts in the third part. If you were able to program in C++ it won't be hard to learn Java/Groovy.
3. If you use the most recent installer you should get three models Capital Eagle, Multi Company and Podra. It's currently not possible to add additional models in an installed version. This is done by developers configuring it in the Config.groovy file (Line 100) before building an installer or war file.

Regards,

Stefan