Need some suggestions for a new open-source project...

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Imported from previous forum

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Hi All,

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the idea of putting together some more open-source technology related to FIX, and was wondering what kind of things would be the most useful to the FIX community - are there any kinds of tools or systems that you might think would be really valuable to the FIX community as open-source projects?

I have a ton of proprietary code and am thinking about releasing some of this as an open-source platform, but I’m debating whether to simply release it as as, or use it as the foundation for something that might be even more useful to the FIX community.

If you have any ideas or suggestions, it would be great to hear what you think about what kind of OSS solutions would be the most useful to the FIX community.

Thanks,

Russ

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Dear Russ,

do you know the QuickFIX/J open source engine? Perhaps you could join
this project with your source code.

Cheers, Jörg

Hi All,

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the idea of putting together some more open-source technology related to FIX, and was wondering what kind of things would be the most useful to the FIX community - are there any kinds of tools or systems that you might think would be really valuable to the FIX community as open-source projects?

I have a ton of proprietary code and am thinking about releasing some of this as an open-source platform, but I’m debating whether to simply release it as as, or use it as the foundation for something that might be even more useful to the FIX community.

If you have any ideas or suggestions, it would be great to hear what you think about what kind of OSS solutions would be the most useful to the FIX community.

Thanks,

Russ

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Suggestions :-

  1. Comprehensive set of valid and invalid FIX tag=value and FIXML messages (definitely valuable).
  2. Code to convert between FIX tag=value and FIXML (I’m looking at this), with testpack of message pairs.
  3. XQuery rules for validating cross-field constraints in FIXML (maybe interesting).

{{{ Andy

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Suggestions :-

  1. Comprehensive set of valid and invalid FIX tag=value and FIXML messages (definitely valuable).
  2. Code to convert between FIX tag=value and FIXML (I’m looking at this), with testpack of message pairs.
  3. XQuery rules for validating cross-field constraints in FIXML (maybe interesting).

{{{ Andy

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the suggestions! Do you think [2] or [3] would be useful as online tools at all - or just as open source code modules?

In terms of [1] I’m not sure what you mean - do you mean something different from the repository or FIX dictionaries which are already available both as xml files and online resources like the FIX wiki or other resources that FPL makes available?

Thanks,

Russ

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Suggestions :-

  1. Comprehensive set of valid and invalid FIX tag=value and FIXML messages (definitely valuable).
  2. Code to convert between FIX tag=value and FIXML (I’m looking at this), with testpack of message pairs.
  3. XQuery rules for validating cross-field constraints in FIXML (maybe interesting).

{{{ Andy

Agree Andy 100% these are great contributions.

Tied to #1 - would be a message generator to generate example data. We have been meaning to write one - but there is so much time and so little to do :wink:

If you had #3 - you could really do something very cool to support requirement #1.

#1 definitely on our road map - but again it is a time issue.