[boost] Interest in a FIX Protocol Library?

Subject: [boost] Interest in a FIX Protocol Library?
From: Marius Dobrea (mldobrea_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-12 17:55:18

Hello Boost,

I have been following the boost email lists for a while now and would 
like to contribute to Boost too.

Since it matches at best my experience it would be probably most 
beneficial if I contribute to a BOOST/FIX library. FIX comes from the 
"Financial Information eXchange" Protocol and it represents a standard 
that is used a lot in the Financial Industry. For more information see 
the related Web Site: http://www.fixtradingcommunity.org.

Firstly I would like to ask the community if there is interest in such a 
library and if anyone is doing any work on it. It seems to me that 
although there are a lot of firms and institutions in the world 
providing software or using FIX there are too few open source C++ 
libraries for that.

Secondly I would like to receive feedback on what functionality would be 
interesting to be part of this library. For instance it could contain:
- basic components that can be used to build bigger blocks: e.g.: raw 
data iterators, message components, field types;
- conversion functions from FIX to C++ types and vice versa;
- code generators for Messages, Enums, Constants based on XML 
specification files;
- implementations for various FIX Session types: Tag-Value, FAST, FIXP, 
user defined messages, etc;
- transformers which based on some configuration could convert messages 
automatically between various FIX versions;
- message persistence, etc.

FIX is very well documented and as such various functionality could be 
probably easily split into interesting projects that are to be part of 
the GSoC.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Marius Dobrea