Re: [Quickfix-developers] Vacation/release

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

Hello Oren,

thank you for your Christmas wishes (in Europe it is still politically 
correct to say Christma ;-). I also wish you a good time and a 
successful New Year 2004. Enjoy your holidays!

> I will be out of town until the 28th of december.  After my return, I
> plan to get out the new release, likely to be versioned as 1.7.
> Among other thing, there will be full 4.4 support for .NET.

That is good news. I am also waiting for a new release, but I would like 
to add some stuff before as:

1. Process "Resend requests to infinity" completely before sending new
    messages through.

2. More verbose Logout processing. Currently QuickFIX does not send a
    Logout message in some instance where FIX suggests to send one.
    (Error conditions as "Sequence number too low" etc.)

Actually I would like to help more on implementing things like this. But 
project pressure prevented this until now.  Hopefully this will change 
next year and I can contribute some changes.

> Although it is impossible to know how many installations of QuickFIX
> are out there, it appears to be very signifigant.  The big execution
> providers are taking notice as more and more people connect to them
> with QuickFIX.

Just make a poll...

> The popularity of QF can be attributed almost completely to word of
> mouth.  Keep it up! Combined with the growing acceptance of open
> source within the business community, I believe our so called "market
> share" will continue to grow.

We connect several customers to an exchange system and starting telling 
them: We use QuickFIX. In addition, several users certified their 
QF-based engines against different systems. Digging through the mailing 
list gives the following:

* CBOE (Oren Miller, did you finish it?)
	
* FOC's RediFIX FIX 4.0 interface
   QuickFix 1.4/1.5 Java Interface / FIX 4.0
   Platforms: W2k and Solaris
   From: "Chuck Houpt" <zzc...@xc...>

* CME ilink 2.0
   The changes needed to pass certification have been supplied, but are
   still not incorporated into CVS (I should have done it already...)
   From: "Rich Holm" <rh...@st...>

* Arcapelago
   http://www.tradearca.com
   QuickFIX 1.5 / FIX 4.1
   From: "Andrew Munn" <an...@nm...>

* SKL's RediFIX (no changes, is this the same as FOC?)
   http://www.redi.com/apifix.html
   QuickFIX 1.5 / FIX 4.1
   From: "Andrew Munn" <an...@nm...>

* Bear Stearns
   QuickFIX 1.6
   From: Oren Miller

If anybody has corrections/additions, please contribute!  It would be 
nice to have some sort of form at the webpage so that people could 
easily enter their data if they like.  Oren, is that possible with 
sourceforge?

> I hope this next year will bring a new evolution to quickfix.  There
> are several big projects on the plate which I hope will either be
> inroporated into an eventual 2.0 release, or be spunoff into new
> projects.  Thank you for your support and have a happy holiday.

Could you reveal any details?  IMHO, the following things I would like 
to be done:

1. file QuickFIX as a Debian package (http://www.debian.org)
    (possibly RPM too)

2. build a pure Java versions since JNI seems to make some headaches

3. integrate with J2EE, most preferably the JBoss Application Server
    (http://www.jboss.org). This could in the style of JMS, the Java
    Messaging Systems and the QF messages could be processed by Message
    Driven Beans (MDBs).

Thank for your great work, Oren!

Cheers, Jörg