Re: [Quantlib-dev] FpML & SOAP volunteering interests

[Sarode, P. <pra...@wa...>]

Hey Eric,
All I could find from the archives was your communication on same topic
about 1-1/2yr ago w/ Shilpi Agarwal from Sapient. Apparently, her
request was exactly similar to mine. Not sure if she is still interested
in joining up on QuantLib FpmL extension.

In that post/communication w/ her you had specifically pointed to 5
links to the posts which supposedly talk about design approaches to
QuantLib-FpML extension.=20

Unfortunately when I clicked those links, none of them work. They give
some kind of Error ---Post not found equivalent.

So effectively I am still stuck at the point where I cannot ready on the
historical ideas proposed around QuantLib-FpML binding.


Prashant Sarode
Vice President Corporate & Investment Banking Technology
Wachovia
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Ehlers [mailto:eri...@na...]=20
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 8:27 AM
To: Sarode, Prashant
Cc: qua...@li...
Subject: Re: [Quantlib-dev] FpML & SOAP volunteering interests

Hi Prashant,

> Hi,
>
> I am Prashant Sarode. I have strong experience in FpML (4.1-4.4
> especially Post-Trade Processes/Mid-2-Back Office side) and SOAP based
> services. I am new to but very interested in QuantLib project and its
> user community.

Welcome.

> I am writing this email to the group to:
>
> 1>Volunteer myself for the request from QuantLib website around any
> potential work that overlaps/involves QuanLib + FpML and SOAP. My
> longest experience has been around FpML + SOAP in a J2EE tech
> stack---now moving into grid technology stack.

In the mailing list archives you can see that the subject of
FpML-enabling
QuantLib has been under discussion for some time.  In an initial
exchange,
a high-level design was sketched out.  Subsequent correspondence about
implementation led to the creation of module QuantLib-FpML on the svn
trunk, but to my knowledge no further progress was made.  If you're
interested in picking this up I imagine you would find a lot of
interest.

An alternative to FpML is serialization based on ValueObjects in
ObjectHandler.  This approach is less sophisticated but easier to
implement.  This functionality has been implemented on the subversion
trunk for inclusion in the upcoming release of QuantLib version 0.9.0.

Regards,
Eric