[Quickfix-users] Some questions about restarting a quickfix server

[Staffan U. <sta...@mu...>]

Hi all,

I've recently been working a bit on a FIX acceptor for order handling
using QuickFIX.  I'm using quickfixj, and have managed to get the
connection up and the initiators seem happy with the setup.  That is,
they can send orders and execution reports are sent back from my acceptor.

This is all still in the testing stage, however, and I was wondering
about what to do whenever a connection is reconnected after a
disconnect, and how to handle a restart of the server.  How much of
gap filling and resending is handled by the quickfix engine itself?
What do I have to do?  I realize the answer might be too complex for a
short mail reply, but I've not been able to find much documentation
either.  Any pointers?

When the server is restarted, maybe after a crash, one way to find out
if there are any orders whose status is not known by the client is to
read the message log.  Is there any way to do that while using the
quickfix engine's message parsing functions?

Staffan