[Quickfix-announce] QuickFIX/J Beta 1 Available

[Steve B. <st...@qu...>]

I am pleased to announce the first beta release of QuickFIX/J, a pure
Java port of the QuickFIX C++ FIX engine. The QuickFIX/J API is
identical to the QuickFIX JNI Java API. It should be possible to
simply redefine the Java classpath to start using QuickFIX/J if you've
been using the JNI version.

The primary focus of this version was porting the C++ and Ruby code to
Java. However, there are a few additional features.  For example...

* QuickFIX/J messages are serializable
* General JDBC log and store support
* Jakarta Commons Logging support (JDK, Log4J)
* Javadoc documentation
* A few new configurations options

We are also seeing better performance with QuickFIX/J compared to the
JNI implementation. Depending on the test, we are seeing between 3-10x
speed improvement.

QuickFIX/J is passing the same acceptance tests as the C++
implementation and is also passing numerous unit tests. The code is
stable but we are expecting minor issues with compatibility, bugs, and
so on once developers start using it. Please follow the guidelines
recently suggested by Joerg Thoennes for reporting bugs and issues
using the QuickFIX bug tracker. The message containing those
guidelines is...

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12260171

Several people have provided valuable assistance to the QuickFIX/J
effort. David Vincent and Laurent Danesi from Smart Trade Technologies
have provided coding and testing support and have set up a Cruise
Control continuous integration server for doing automated builds and
test report generation. Barry Kaplan has been using the engine for
real trading and has provided early feedback on bugs and other
issues. These developers are also involved in some very interesting
features for future versions of QuickFIX/J. We'll describe those in
future messages. Oren Miller has provided project management
assistance and has patiently answered our numerous questions about the
C++ implementation.

We are hoping that the Java QuickFIX users will help us improve the
quality of the QuickFIX/J implementation by trying the software and
reporting bugs or other issues. If you'd like to get involved as a
developer, send me a note and let me know how you'd like to
participate. I'm also interested in hearing from people who are
experts on the FIX protocol or applications of FIX and who would be
willing to consult with the development team when we have questions.

The code is available as a binary or source package from the 
QuickFIX SourceForge file download area.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=37535

Steve Bate