Thanks for your response. I am now going thru" the documentation for
> Matt and Nagesh,
>
> The Marketcetera Exchange Simulator is just a plain FIX back-end
> engine - you do not need a special protocol to send orders to the
> simulator, a correctly formatted FIX message will suffice.
>
> The simulator is based is on the "executor" example from the
> QuickFIX/J distribution, and the Marketcetera Order-Routing Server
> (ORS) is built on top of QFJ as well
>
> Nagesh, the best approach for you is to create your orders outside of
> Marketcetera, but then use one of our integration APIs to drop them on
> the JMS queue and let Marketcetera ORS route the order to the exchange
> simulator.
> See the Architecture diagram for more details:
>
http://trac.marketcetera.org/trac.fcgi/wiki/0.5.0/Marketcetera/Architecture> If you are writing your logic in Java then you can base it on the
> OrderLoader example, if you are going through .NET then we have
> examples for you as well.
>
> Matt, just out of curiosity, what is the complicated part of the
> Marketcetera Platform that made you want to rewrite everything? Our
> goal is to provide basic foundation blocks to enable people to write
> strategies without having to reinvent the wheel, so I'd be interested
> to know what features you didn't like.
>
> With respect to logouts/disconnects, the most likely reason is that
> your client machine's clock is out of sync - the underlying QuickFIX/J
> engine disconnects you if you are more than 30 seconds away from the
> server. There's an RFE in QFJ that i'm working on fixing right now
> that will give the client more details when that happens, so that
> should make its way into our simulator shortly as wlel.
> If you give me the senderCompID you've been using I can check the
> simulator to see why it was logging you off all the time.
>
> Hope this helps. Let me know if there's anything else.
>
> thanks.
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Matt Y <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>> I would like someone to clarify this issue for me too.
>>
>> I have been able to communicate perfectly with Marketcetera Exchange
>> Stimulator ON A MACHINE ON WHICH I PREVIOUSLY INSTALLED Proton, OMS
>> etc. And then I decided that the set up was unnecessarily complicated
>> for my liking so I decided to write my own (essentially) FIX API and
>> Socket Feed loop etc.
>>
>> However, I have not use the same code on any other machine in the
>> sense that immediately after I send a Logon message, I either have my
>> connection closed by them or I receive a Logout message...
>>
>> Thanks a lot for those who can help
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:01 PM, ನಾಗೇಶ್ ಸುಬ್ರಹ್ಮಣ್ಯ (Nagesh S)
>> <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Outside of the platform (i.e. other than Photon, etc.) what protocol
>>> etc. are required to access the FIX Exchange Simulator
>>> (
http://exchange.marketcetera.com/marketDisplay/) ? Do I have to
>>> install ActiveMQ and configure it to "speak" to FIX Exchange Simulator
>>> ?
>>>
>>> My aim is to generate FIX messages through a process outside of the
>>> downloads provided by Marketcetra and publish to the Exchange
>>> simulator. The host name, port number and FIX version are of course
>>> mentioned on the site
>>> (
http://trac.marketcetera.org/trac.fcgi/wiki/Marketcetera/Simulators).
>>>
>>> Nagesh
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