Re: [Quickfixj-users] Does Quickfix support FiXML as well?

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

Someone else asked me this question recently. Here's the answer I gave
them...

Do you have a specific use case in mind? FIXML payloads can be communicated
with any transport. They can be communicated using FIX (the XML data becomes
one tag/value field in the message), FAST or JMS, as examples. If the FIXML
is being parsed as XML or bound to objects using a technology like JAXB on
the receiving end (the QFJ "application"), then the only role QFJ plays is
to transport the XML through a FIX message.

Deeper integration with QFJ might include a "binding" mechanism that binds
the FIXML XML data to QFJ message objects and fields. This would allow
exchange of messages between FIXML endpoints and FIX tag/value endpoints
using QFJ messages. Depending on your use case, this might not be necessary.
It might not even be desirable for performance reasons.

You could create an abstract QFJ Application subclass that binds the FIXML
directly to your application's domain objects and then provides the objects
to concrete QFJ Application subclasses.

Steve

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Ben Stover <bxs...@ya...> wrote:

> Can I use FIXML as FIX protocol when using Quickfix?
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> Do I have to config special options for this usage?
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> Ben
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