Re: [Quickfix-users] QuickFIXEngine user experience

[Joerg T. <Joe...@ma...>]

Nick Evgeniev wrote:
> I've been using quickfix on windows/linux/solaris for sometime.. The 
> most annoying thing with quickfix is broken double parsing, because of 
> atof() usage. So if your platform honors locale settings for atof() call 
> (like Solaris) and your current locale settings have decimal separator 
> other than '.' quickfix will silently drop fraction part on all of your 
> pricess! (damn!) so be sure to set LC_NUMERIC=C prior to running any 
> quickfix application.

Nick, please file a bug report to the bug tracker. Since the formatting of FIX messages is 
defined by the FIX spec, it should not be modified by any locale settings. Do you remember 
of other situations where this could apply (e.g. date/time etc.)? Thanks.

>> - reliability
> 
> There is quite a bit to do in this area.. (requires manual fixing and 
> testing).
> When runs as a client (initiator) does not handle properly out of sync 
> message sequence situation regardless config settings (see bug #19 it 
> seems to be there for ages).

OK, there is a patch attached. Does it work for you?

> When runs as server thread accepting connections silently exits on 
> unknown fields in login message.

Hmmm, could you provide more details here?

> java port does not deal properly with classloaders.

Java API, the (pure) Java port of Steve Bates is in CVS. This is bug 58 with patches 
attached. I did not find time to have a closer look at it, but it will make using QF with 
JBoss (and other application server) and eclipse much easier.

Cheers, Jörg

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