Imported from previous forum
[ original email was from Steve Bate - sbate@smart-trade.net ]
Smart Trade Technologies, provider of next-generation multi-asset
matching solutions for the financial markets, and the QuickFIX/J Team,
developers of the 100% Java open source FIX engine, announced the
worldwide production release of QuickFIX/J, a pure Java implementation
of the QuickFIX engine and the only full-featured open source Java FIX
engine currently available.
This initiative allows a natural integration of the QuickFIX/J engine
design with Java enterprise technologies, ideally suited for
developing platform-independent FIX-related applications, tools and
user interfaces. Smart Trade Technologies contributed to the
QuickFIX/J project by providing programming skills, technical
leadership and management resources. Smart Trade Technologies also
uses QuickFIX/J to provide an out-of-the-box, enterprise-class FIX
connectivity extension for its smartTrade Trading Platform (STTP).
“QuickFIX/J is a strategic component of our overall architecture to
provide external FIX connectivity for our multi-asset matching
solution,” said David Vincent, CTO and co-founder of Smart
Trade. “This initiative is an integral component of the business
strategy at Smart Trade to fully embrace the open-source community and
push for the next-generation of trading technologies.”
“We have been very pleased with extremely positive response to this
production release,” said Steve Bate, lead developer and initiator of
the QuickFIX/J project. “We have actively built an open-source
community around QuickFIX/J. With new users and development resources,
we are expecting a rapid evolution of the product while leveraging
existing standard Java APIs and open source technologies.” Bate is
also head of research and development at Smart Trade.
According to Oren Miller, creator of QuickFIX, “I’m thrilled with the
work done on QuickFIX/J and happily endorse it as a quality companion
or alternative to the original. We have worked closely with the QuickFIX/J team to ensure compatibility with QuickFIX, swapping it
into some of our own applications.”