> > Someone has written a large Java library (QuickFIX/J) which speaks > a gnarled, ugly protocol (FIX).
They've also written a large C++ library for the same purpose called QuickFix[1]. You could try wrapping it directly via the Haskell FFI. Travis [1] http://www.quickfixengine.org/ On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Daniel Cook <danielkc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Someone has written a large Java library (QuickFIX/J) which speaks a > gnarled, ugly protocol (FIX). There don't appear to be any FIX > protocol libraries in Hackage. I need my Haskell program to talk to a > 3rd-party system that only speaks FIX. > > Should I: > > a) Reimplement the protocol directly Haskell? (This appears to be > non-trivial) > > b) Wrap the Java library with some code to use a lightweight message > queue (zeromq) to send messages to my Haskell program? (This would > require essentially re-implementing an abstracted subset of the the > protocol into 0MQ messages) > > c) Find a way for Haskell to interact directly with Java? (the various > JNI bridges seem very unmaintained...) > > To me, (b) seems like the best approach, but I'd like to hear what the > cafe thinks.. > > Cheers, > - Dan > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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