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• EVEN (default) - share worker thread among all sessions in the Engine;
• AGGRESSIVE_SEND - use dedicated per session thread to send outgoing messages;
• AGGRESSIVE_RECEIVE - use dedicated per session thread to receive incoming messages;
• AGGRESSIVE_SEND_AND_RECEIVE - use dedicated per session threads to send and receive messages;

• DIRECT_SEND - use the current thread for sending, if this would block, performs perform as "EVEN".

Values

EVEN

Use thread pool for performing I/O for send and receive operation. The operations are distributed between the worker threads by a dispatcher thread which polls sockets and notifies worker threads when some socket is ready. In this mode FIX Antenna batches incoming/outgoing messages, i.e. several FIX messages can be processed in one send() system call. This is the default value.

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