FIX-related products and services

OnixS selfConnect Java FIX Engine

Onix Solutions [OnixS] FPL
Alpha House
London SE1 1LB GB

The OnixS selfConnect Java FIX Engine facilitates development of FIX based applications on the Java platform using its open and extensible API.

Main features:

• High throughput, low latency performance for Direct Market Access or Algorithmic Trading applications
  
• Built-in per-session SSL support
  
• Support for current and future FIX versions (FIX 4.0, FIX 4.1, FIX 4.2, FIX 4.3, FIX 4.4, FIX 5.0)
  
• Supports all tags of each FIX version
  
• Supports all message types of each FIX version (equities, fixed income, derivatives, FX etc)
  
• Flexible support of user-defined tags and user-defined message types
  
• Can support more than one FIX version at once
  
• Can perform validation of required fields
  
• Can support up to 700 FIX sessions simultaneously
  
• Persistence (the ability to log data to a flat file and restore the state after fail-over)
  
• Supports per-session FIX dialects (different interpretations of FIX)
• Source-Code Licence is available

The FIX Engine provides the following services:

• manages a network connection
  
• manages the session layer (for the delivery of application messages)
  
• manages the application layer (defines business related data content)
  
• creates (outgoing) messages
  
• parses (incoming) messages
  
• validates messages
  
• persists messages
  
• session recovery in accordance with the FIX state events

System prerequisites:

• Development environment: Java 2
  
• Deployment environment: JRE 1.5+
  

The OnixS selfConnect Java FIX Engine set includes the FIX Engine Java library, documentation, and open-source samples (SellSide, BuySide, Simple Order Entry, FIX benchmark tests) for evaluation, education and testing.

For more information on OnixS, the OnixS selfConnect Java FIX Engine or any of our products please email or visit our web-site www.onixs.biz.

Architecture

J2EE, Stand alone executable / library

Asset Class

Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Listed Derivatives, OTC Derivatives

Coverage

Africa, Asia-Pacific, Australia, Central America, Europe, Middle-East, North America-Canada, North America-USA, Russia

Domain

Back office, Front Office, Middle Office, Order Routing, Proprietary Trading

FAST Version

1.1

FIX Version

4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

Functionality

Allocations and Settlement Instructions, E-mail, Indications of Interest, News, Orders and Execution Reports

Language

Java

Licensing

License + Maintenance, License Only, Maintenance Only

Middleware

IBM MQ Series, In-process, JDBC, JMS, RMI, Sockets, TIBCO Rendezvous

Platform

AIX, HP/UX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows NT/2k/XP

Project Type

Fixed Price, Hourly

Service

Business Analysis / Requirements, Development, Outsourcing - offshore, Outsourcing - onshore, Quality Assurance

Services

Best Execution Tools, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Exchange Solutions, FIX Gateway, FIX Messaging and monitoring, FIX point-to-point connectivity, Trading Applications

Topic

FIX 4.1, FIX 4.2, FIX 4.3, FIX 4.4, FIXML 4.4, Order routing, Post trade processing

Other

FIXML DTD, FIXML DTD, FIXML Schema

Web site

http://www.onixs.biz/selfConnect/java/

Contact

+44 20 7117 0111