[Versafix-users] Update - 02/01/2010 11:30

[Russell E. C. <ru...@as...>]

Hi All,

I just wanted to keep everyone updated on some recent developments. 
Richard Clarke has volunteered to develop the code generation system for 
VersaFix, and has been cranking on that over the course of the last 
week. That activity is getting close to completion, so we'll have 
another update out once he's ready to have people take a look at it. 
It's going really well so far and we now are very close to having 
complete code generation for type-safe classes, in much the same way 
that the QuickFix system does. This is a tremendous bunch of work that 
Richard is contributing, and I think people are going to really like the 
end result.

Also, the DxBuilder project has been replaced, in SVN, with a project 
called DxDataGen. It's the same utility, just under a different project 
name. Once Richard is done with the code generation work, we're going to 
add his system as a project called DxCodeGen, so we'll end up with the 
following tools for working with VersaFix data dictionaries:

1. DxDataGen (\Utilities\DxDataGen):

Generates VersaFix FIX data dictionaries from an instance of the FPL FIX 
repository.

2. DxCodeGen (Utilities\DxCodeGen):

Generates type-safe C# classes from an instance of a VersaFix FIX data 
dictionary.

3. DxEditor (Utilities\DxEditor):

GUI application for viewing and modifying the contents of a FIX data 
dictionary.

We're going to include support for QuickFix in the DxEditor application, 
so users will be able to import and export QuickFIX format dictionaries 
using it.

Thanks for all of the help with testing, evaluating, and so on! The 
project is going great so far, and we are starting to get more firms 
interested in using VersaFix to build trading applications.

Cheers,

Russ
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Russell E. Curry
CEO
Assimilate Technology, Inc.
www.assimilate.com
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