Quickfix Component
The quickfix: component is an implementation of the QuickFix engine for Java . This engine allows to connect to a FIX server which is used to exchange financial messages according to FIX protocol standard.
Note: The component can be used to send/receives messages to a FIX server.
URI format
quickfix-server:config file quickfix-client:config file
Where config file is the location (in your classpath) the quickfix configuration file used to configure the engine at the startup.
Note: Information about parameters available for quickfix can be found on QuickFixJ web site.
The quickfix-server endpoint must be used to receive from FIX server FIX messages and quickfix-client endpoint in the case that you want to send messages to a FIX gateway.
Warning: You cannot use a quickfix engine to send or receive messages in both direction as the FIX protocol handle logon/logout sessions with heartbeat messages which are send to verify if the server or client is still alive.