Re: [Quickfix-users] QuickFIX/J Beta 1 Available

[Nick E. <ni...@de...>]

Hi,

It's a greate news! Hopefully it would not coredump on every broken logon
request as jni version does!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Bate" <st...@qu...>
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Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 8:00 AM
Subject: [Quickfix-users] QuickFIX/J Beta 1 Available


> QuickFIX Documentation: 
> http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/index.html
> QuickFIX FAQ: http://www.quickfixengine.org/wikifix/index.php?QuickFixFAQ
> QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
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