[Quickfixj-users] Problems migrating to QuickFIX/J

[Edde <edd...@gm...>]

Hi Guys,

We've been using QuickFix in our trading application and since our
application is built in Java I've been using the _jni library. Now
that QuickFIX/J 1.0 has been released I thought it was time to migrate
to the pure Java version.
>From what I understand QuickFIX/J is backwards compatible with the
_jni interface which should mean that the only thing needed is to
replace my old quickfix.jar file with the new quickfixj.jar and add
the extra dependencies (e.g backport-util-concurrent-2.1.jar). Am I
missing something here or is that all I need to do?

Anyway this is what I tried to do and my application runs smothly
until it tries to create the ThreadedSocketInitiator when the
application just hangs when calling the constructor. Any ideas?
I've just upgraded to Java 1.5.0_7 if that could be a problem...

Before posting to this list I thought I'd download the source and try
to compile the quickfixj.jar with some debug to give you some more
info on exactly where it hangs but I didn't succeed in this either
;-(.
I'm using Eclipse for development so it was great that the source came
as an Eclipse project. I added the project to Eclipse which seems to
work just fine but it won't compile since all the quickfix.field.*
classes are missing. I checked out the webpage and saw that these can
easily be creating using the "Generate FIX Messages" ant script.
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work because I get the following
error:

"BUILD FAILED: file:C:/Projects/Trading/FIX/QuickFix/quickfixj/build.xml:86:
Unexpected element "macrodef""

My experience using Ant scripts unfortunately limits to generating
Javadoc so I'm not sure what's going on here...

Any help would be highly appreciated.
Cheers,
/Eddie