Overview

FIX Edge Java is an application server providing FIX connectivity to multiple clients. Client applications communicate with FEJ through one of multiple transport protocols (e.g. Simple Sockets, TIBCO, CORBA, HTTPs) employing transport adaptors. It is designed to be as easy as possible to install, configure, administrate and monitor trading information flows. It is written in Java and has a performance profile suitable for the needs of all clients up to and including large sell-side institutions and large volume traders.

System Requirements

To get started, make sure your system has Java JDK 8.

$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_60"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_60-b27)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.60-b23, mixed mode)

Installation

To get started, you need to download the FEJ distribution. You should end up downloading a compressed ZIP file named something like fixedgej-1.0.0.zip. Once you have downloaded the FEJ zipball, installing and setting up a standalone FEJ node is pretty simple and straightforward. Let’s extract the compressed zip archive into /usr/share. On Linux, Mac OS X, or any other UNIX-like system you can use the following command to extract the distribution: