[Quickfix-developers] Just Starting...

[azmat <mr...@gm...>]

Hello everyone...

I've been reading through the FIX Spec (4.2) as well as the quickfix
documentation.  I'm able to create sessions, send logon messages, get
feedback from the server, etc.  

Now I want to create a message and send it over to the Acceptor, and
hopefully receive something from the Server.  This is where I am 'stuck'. 
How do I handle all of the possible return messages from the Acceptor in my
code?  Do I have to create case statements in case of each type of message
that might get returned from the Acceptor (broker)?

Another question/concern I have now is what happens when a packet/message
gets "dropped" between me (initiator) and the broker (acceptor)?   I know
there are a number of resend requests that get passed back and forth, but
what actually happens?  Does quickfix have some sort of internal data
structure that has all of the messages that were sent but not yet ACKd?  Or
is this something I need to implement on my OMS?

I would also be interested in finding some sort of documentation regarding
the data flow of objects using the quickfix engine or maybe an entity
relationship diagram of the objects....anything like this would be much
appreciated! 

I've read several posts of people trying to learn FIX/quickfix over the
years and now that's my turn I'm hoping some of those people can come back
and help explain some of the things they learned along the way!



thanks!
Azmat
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