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The three Thomson Reuters RMDS adapters were renamed to reflect the new name of the protocol formerly known as RMDS: Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Real-Time, or TREP-RT. The adapters are otherwise unchanged. See:

The input adapters for IBM WebSphere MQ and Wall Street Systems were updated with two new properties: Include Depth Field and Syncpoint on Get. These properties are enabled by default for compatibility with previous releases of these adapters. Disabling both settings significantly improves performance of these adapters. See IBM WebSphere MQ Input Adapter and Wall Street Systems Input Adapter.

Starting with this release, the Connect on adapter init property of the StreamBase to StreamBase input and output adapters no longer has any effect. Both adapters now behave as though the property is disabled (meaning they do not connect on startup), which conforms to StreamBase best practices. This change applies only to the 7.0.x release series.

The FIX Schema Designer (FSD), added in release 7.0.8, now supports the FIX/FAST protocol. FAST stands for FIX Adapted for STreaming, and is a FIX variation used by some trading venues. To design a schema to communicate with such a venue, select FAST Data Dictionary File in the FSD's Select Data Dictionary dialog, then navigate to select the dictionary file provided by the venue. In all other ways, the FSD works the same as before.

The StreamBase utilities jsbadmin, jsbc, sbbundle, and sbfeedsim were updated to accept the -J option anywhere on the command line instead of its former required first position. You can now specify -J options with or without a following space.

The .NET Client Library was rewritten to improve the performance of creating tuples and accessing tuple field values, with initial tests showing a speedup of 10 to 40 times from the previous API. Most of the .NET API for building StreamBase clients is now a pure .NET implementation, although some classes (such as StreamBaseClient) remain based on the C++ API. (The .NET API for building StreamBase Server monitor applications is unchanged.)

Rewriting most of the API as pure .NET forced some changes in the interface, as described in Migrating .NET Clients in the API Guide. You may need to make source code changes for existing .NET client applications and recompile them in order to accommodate the new API.

The Timestamp class in the C++ Client Library now uses snap to end of month semantics for the setMonth() method. The following code fragment illustrates how this works:

Timestamp tm;
tm.setYear(2011);
tm.setMonth(10);
tm.setDayOfMonth(31);
// tm now represents October 31, 2011
tm.setMonth(2);
// tm now represents February 28, 2011

The expression language gained a join() function, the opposite of split(). Use join() to return a string formed by concatenating the members of a list of any type, and interposing a specified character or string between each element.

The Excel External adapter was updated such that the buffer-size configuration parameter and TUPLENUM tag are now limited to values between 1 and 1000. Prior to this change, there was no limit on buffer-size, and TUPLENUM was limited to values between 1 and 999.

The 29West LBM Subscribing and Publishing adapters were updated to support pre-defined messages. Enable support for this feature with the new Enable Pre-defined Messages property. The adapters have several other new properties that control how a publish and subscribe adapter pair agree on message definitions in cooperation with the StreamBase schema.

The StreamBase documentation for release 7.0.11 included the following changes independent of the above updates:

To provide better alignment of the StreamBase .NET Client Library with the Java Client Library, the .NET API was updated to add new field creation methods to StreamBase.SB.Schema, and to deprecate older field creation methods.

The Trading Technologies FIX adapter was updated to support through version 7.7.2 of the Trading Technologies data dictionary.

The Wombat MAMA Input adapter was updated to support version 5 of the MAMA API. To specify the use of MAMA version 5, in the adapter's Properties view, for the MAMA Version property, select 4.x and above, which is now the default setting.

The TBF Input adapter was updated to add a new configuration option, RequestRetransmitOnHeartbeatTimeout.

JAR files provided by IBM that support WebSphere MQ are no longer shipped as part of the StreamBase kit. Documentation topics for the IBM WebSphere MQ Input and Output adapters and sample were updated to describe where to install the MQ JAR files you obtain from IBM.

JAR files provided by Deutsche Bank that support the AutobahnFX Trading System are no longer shipped as part of the StreamBase kit. Documentation topics for the AutobahnFX Trading System adapter and its sample were updated to describe where to install the Autobahn FX JAR files you obtain from Deutsche Bank.

The data dictionary for the UBS FIX adapter was updated to the latest version.

The E-mail Sender Output adapter was updated to send its e-mail messages in a separate, background thread and to add the new Outgoing Message Queue Capacity property. Set this to a value large enough to accommodate the maximum expected e-mail message burst.

The Log Output Adapter sample was revised to show three examples of formatting that the adapter can apply to log messages. The Log Output adapter topic in the Adapters Guide was revised, corrected, and expanded. The sample's topic in the Samples Guide was revised and expanded.

The Binary File Reader adapter now emits a close event tuple when it finishes reading a file.

The StreamBase documentation for release 7.0.10 included the following changes independent of the above updates:

The field name qualifier input. is now valid in expressions in the Aggregate operator, and has the same meaning as the input1. qualifier.

The TBF Input adapter was updated to add a configuration option, QueueCapacity, and to increase the default blocking capacity of the adapter.

As of this release, all Windows MSI installer files are digitally signed, including the installers for external adapters and Frameworks.

The StreamBase documentation for release 7.0.9 included the following changes independent of the above updates:

This release introduces the FIX Schema Designer, which provides a way to generate named schemas for FIX message types for use with the FIX adapter or any StreamBase adapter that uses the FIX protocol. See FIX Schema Designer View for details.

If you use an existing Studio workspace after installing this release, the FIX Schema Designer view may not appear by default. In this case, either run Window → Reset Perspective for the SB Authoring perspective, or directly open the new view with Window → Show View → Other → StreamBase FIX → FIX Schema Designer.

You can now copy schemas from streams and components in interface files as well as from EventFlow and StreamSQL modules, when using the Copy Schema From dialog. See Copying Schemas in the Authoring Guide.

Entries in the Module Call Hierarchy View now show the name of an Extension Point first, followed by the StreamBase interface file implemented by that Extension Point. This more accurately reflects the action to expect from double-clicking an Extension Point name, which is to select and highlight that Extension Point in the EventFlow Editor for the containing module. To open the interface file instead, right-click and select Open Module File from the context menu, as before.

The Trace Debugger view now has a link that pops up a reminder of the color legend for the debugger.

The postShutdown() method of the Operator class was updated to more strictly wait for an operator or adapter's run threads to exit (or time out) before running. This strict behavior of postShutdown() is the default behavior as of this release, and improves the shutdown behavior of all operators and adapters, whether provided by StreamBase or custom. You can restore the postShutdown() method's non-strict behavior by setting the streambase.java-operator.unsynchronized-shutdown system property to true.

Basic StreamBase authentication now supports connecting to StreamBase Server with URLs that include an enciphered password, as described in Enciphering Passwords. This affects all client access to the server, including StreamBase-provided clients such as sbc and sbadmin, and affects access from most adapters.

Custom operators and adapters can now register independent threads that are not derived from the Operator class for purposes of thread CPU tracking in StreamBase profiling tools. In the Javadoc for the StreamBase Client Library, see registerUnmanagedThread() and unregisterUnmanagedThread() in Operator.RuntimeEnvironment.

In the .NET Client Library, the StreamBase::SB::Timestamp class was made serializable.

The BM&FBovespa UMDF adapter allows a StreamBase application to connect to BM&FBovespa's Unified Market Data Feed to receive market data in the form of FIX/FAST messages. The adapter uses the high-speed, low-latency StreamBaseFIX engine to decode the incoming FAST messages. The adapter is described in BM&FBovespa UMDF Input Adapter and has a sample, described in BM&FBOVESPA UMDF Input Adapter Sample.

The Thomson Reuters RMDS Subscribing Input adapter was updated to add useMarketfeedUpdateType=true to its default configuration file. For SSL connections when using the Market Feed message model only, this directs the adapter to emit Market Feed corrections as CORRECTION messages.

The Deutsche Bank AutobahnFX Trading System adapter was updated to support ladder rungs for swaps and to provide performance enhancements.

The CitiFX FIX adapter was updated to support the Executable Streaming Prices for Forwards product as well as ESP for Spot. Continue to select the Spot option in the adapter's Properties view for either ESP product.

The TBF Input adapter was updated to support the new MaxQueueLength, RetransRetryCount, and RetranRetryWaitTime properties in the STAMP session configuration file. See TBF Input Adapter for details.

The Lime Citrius Quote adapter was updated to use version 2.0.6 of the Lime Citrius API.

The output adapter in the FXall Relationship Trading Provider Adapter set was updated to add the Log XML Messages and INFO Level property. Previously, only the input adapter of this adapter set supported this option.

The Trading Technologies FIX adapter was updated to support version 7.6.5.29 of the Trading Technologies data dictionary.

The StreamBase documentation for release 7.0.8 included the following changes independent of the above updates:

The Velocity Analytics tick-store database from Thomson Reuters is now supported for standard JDBC access.

In previous releases, container connections were restricted to streams exiting one container and entering a stream in a separate container. As of this release, that restriction is relaxed, and you can configure stream to stream connections within the same container, where the destination and source container names are the same. Intra-container connections must be Asynchronous, and the same access restrictions apply: that is, streams you wish to connect to or from in sub-modules must be marked as Always exposed in EventFlow modules, or public in StreamSQL modules.

To provide better compatibility with version control systems, in cases where only layout changes have occurred, Studio now saves only the module's .sblayout file. In previous releases, Studio would save both .sbapp and .sblayout files for any change.

The Module Explorer view shows all StreamBase module files and folders containing such files in the module search path of the currently open EventFlow or StreamSQL module. The default display order is to list files and folders in alphabetical order. Starting with this release, there is a Search Path Order button in the view's toolbar. Click this button to show the view in module search path order. The button's selected state persists between Studio sessions.

In StreamBase Server configuration files, the param child element of the data-source element accepts a new value, jdbc-query-timeout. This parameter specifies an integer number of milliseconds that StreamBase waits for each JDBC query operation to execute. The default is 0, which means wait forever for each query to return; this default matches the behavior of StreamBase before this parameter was added. Specify a value such as 15000 (15 seconds) to prevent StreamBase Server from hanging in rare cases where the JDBC server never responds to a query. See StreamBase Server Configuration File XML Reference.

The Drools operator was updated to add an optional status port specified with the new Enable status port property. This port conveys the status of rules entered at runtime on the dynamic rule port. The documentation page for the operator was updated to clarify the format of rules entered on this port.

The new nullif() function evaluates two arguments. If the arguments are equal, the function returns null; otherwise, the first argument is returned. This function can be used to evaluate fields before and after an event, and to send a field downstream only if it has changed, otherwise null.

The new eval() function takes either two or three arguments. With two arguments, the function evaluates a simple expression entered as a string and returns the result using the data type of the second argument. With three arguments, the second field contains a tuple, and the expression in the first field can be evaluated against any fields in that tuple. The third argument specifies the return data type. Because of environment limitations, the eval() function does not run successfully at the command prompt with sbd --eval, but runs as expected in EventFlow and StreamSQL expressions.

The Thomson Reuters RMDS Subscribing Input adapter was updated to better distinguish quotes from trades. The market data output port now contains an optional ResponseType field, which supersedes the UnsolicitedRefresh field. The field is enabled by selecting the Include OMM Response Type Field property in the Tuple Properties tab in the adapter's Properties view. The field contains SOLICITED or UNSOLICITED for refresh messages, or contains QUOTE, TRADE, CORRECTION, and so on, for update messages.

The FIX adapter, and all StreamBase adapters that use the QuickFIX/J FIX engine, were updated to take advantage of the version of the LogBack logging libraries included with the StreamBase base kit. This allows you to configure adapter-specific entries in your logback.xml file that specify file rolling for log files that capture QuickFIX/J messages. Contact StreamBase Technical Support if you need help configuring this option.

The ActivFeed Input adapter was updated to support Activ's Service.WorkstationService address to support multiple connections with shared user credentials. See ActivFeed Input Adapter in the Adapters Guide.

The JMS embedded adapters were updated to support connections to OpenMQ without JNDI.

The StreamBase documentation for release 7.0.7 included the following changes independent of the above updates:

Starting with this release, the FIX adapter can be configured to take advantage of a new FIX engine, StreamBaseFIX, in addition to the QuickFIX/J, CameronFIX, and Appia FIX engines already supported. StreamBaseFIX is derived from the B2Bits Antenna FIX engine from EPAM Systems, and allows high-speed, low-latency communication using the FIX protocol.

StreamBaseFIX can be used with the FIX adapter and with all StreamBase adapters that use the FIX protocol, including the Bolsa Commercio Santiago FIX, Bovespa, CitiFX FIX, Currenex, EBS, FXall FIX, Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading FX, Integral FX Inside FIX, LavaFX, Lime FIX, Nomura FX FIX, Raptor, Trading Technologies, and UBS FIX adapters.

The StreamBaseFIX engine is included with the base StreamBase kit, but its use is separately licensed. Contact StreamBase Systems Technical Support or your StreamBase Sales Engineer for further details.

The six StreamBase adapters that connect StreamBase applications to the Reuters infrastructure were rebranded as Thomson Reuters adapters. Functionality for all Thomson Reuters adapters remains the same as before.

In previous releases, the Extract as Module command (in the context menu of the EventFlow canvas) was extracting all parameters and their settings from the parent module to the new child module. The command was updated such that it now extracts only parameters actually used by the components selected for extraction. Parameters with default values in the parent module are copied with the same values to the child module. Parameter settings in the child module are updated to link to the parent module's parameter values, in the form ParamName = ${ParamValue}.

This release adds Studio highlight and location support in text searches for StreamBase file types in the Studio workspace initiated by the Eclipse Search → File dialog. After a search, in the Search view, use the up and down arrow buttons (or the Ctrl+. shortcut) to select each found location in sequence. Starting with this release, selecting a found location in the Search view opens the editor for the StreamBase file in which the search phrase was found, and highlights the containing line. For EventFlow files, the component that contains the search phrase is selected and centered on the canvas. This feature is described in a new Authoring Guide page, Text Search in Studio.

When using sbprofile to generate a profiling output file, you can now append a --roll-size or --roll-time option to automatically roll over the output file when it reaches a specified size or when a certain time has elapsed. See sbprofile for syntax details.

The External Process and StreamBase Admin operators both gained a new property, Number of async worker threads. For the StreamBase Admin operator, this property is on the Operator Properties tab; for the External Process operator, the property is on the Advanced tab and is only active when the Run this command asynchronously check box is selected. The default value of 1 means that the operator's commands are performed serially, and this default behavior is new for both operators. Positive values specify a limit on the number of threads to spawn to perform the operator's requested operations. Negative or 0 means the operator spawns an unlimited number of threads (which is the default behavior in previous releases).

The E-mail Sender Output adapter now has a new X-Headers tab in its Properties view, which allows you to specify multiple X-Header lines to be included in the emitted e-mail. See E-mail Sender Output Adapter in the Adapters Guide.

The StreamBase documentation for release 7.0.6 included the following updates independent of the changes described above:

The version of Eclipse that serves as a foundation for StreamBase Studio was updated to Eclipse 3.6.2, which retains backward compatibility for Eclipse 3.5 plug-ins. If you add third-party Eclipse plug-ins to Studio, make sure they are compatible with Eclipse 3.5 or 3.6.

The Oracle JDK installed for private use by StreamBase was updated to release 1.6.0_24. As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

The expression language gained the new getServerURI() function that returns the StreamBase URI of the currently running server in the form sb://localhost:10000. The function reports the URI from the server's point of view, and thus always returns localhost as the host name. Use this function to obtain the port number plus any appended authentication parameters from a running server.

In previous releases, StreamBase samples and documentation recommended using systemproperty("streambase.uri") to retrieve this information. As of this release, the HA samples and documentation now show the use of getServerURI() instead.

Sites that run multiple instances of StreamBase Server in the same JVM need a way to distinguish the port number from the URI of separate server instances, which is not possible with a JVM-wide property. StreamBase Server continues to provide the streambase.uri system property in the 6.6.x and 7.0.x release series, but the property will be deprecated in a future release. StreamBase Systems recommends migrating your code to use the new getServerURI() function to prepare for the deprecation of the streambase.uri property.

The expression language was enhanced with a new function, isinterval(), that returns true if its timestamp argument is an interval timestamp.

Under some circumstances, StreamBase Server can emit warning messages at startup that indicate an environment variable has changed since the application was compiled. In most cases, these warnings have no consequences and can be ignored. However, when the server is loading a bundle file that includes a precompiled archive file, an environment variable warning message has the unintended side effect that the server ignores the bundled archive file and recompiles the application from the bundled source files. The bundled application does run normally, but for very large applications, at the cost of the recompilation time. To avoid recompiling a bundled archive file, you can now set the following system property:

streambase.check-app-environment-variables-changed=false

In Studio, the StreamBase panel of the Properties dialog for EventFlow and StreamSQL files now shows statistics about the selected file after it has been compiled by StreamBase Server at least once. Statistics are shown for the selected module and all submodules it references. See Application Statistics on the new StreamBase File Properties page.

The -w or --working-directory options for the sbd command were added in release 7.0.3. As of release 7.0.5, these options change earlier in the sbd startup sequence to the specified working directory path. This change means that every file the server needs to reference, including files specified on the sbd command line, must be specified relative to the working directory, or must be absolute paths.

For example, in 7.0.3 and 7.0.4, sbd -w subdir myApp.sbbundle required that myApp.sbbundle exist in the directory from which you entered the sbd command. Starting with this release, myApp.sbbundle must exist in subdir.

The sbargen command has a new option, --if-modified. When used, it directs sbargen to check the target .sbar file's dependencies, and only rebuild the target if it is older than its dependencies.

The SBServerManager.loadApp() method in the com.streambase.sb.unittest package now loads precompiled archive files (.sbar files) as well as EventFlow and StreamSQL files. As before, specified files are located on the module search path.

The FXall Relationship Trading Provider Input adapter was updated with the following enhancements: See FXall Relationship Trading Provider Adapter for details.

The Deutsche Bank AutobahnFX Trading System adapter was updated to support a new Include Latency Data property in the adapter's Properties view. When selected, this property adds two latency measurement fields to the Quotes output tuple expressed in nanoseconds. The QuoteArrivalTime field records the time between delivering a quote to the adapter and the time that quote arrives in the containing adapter. The QuoteHandoffTime field records the time a Quotes tuple spends enqueued after the adapter has called sendOutputAsync().

The 29West LBM adapter was updated such that all instances of the adapter now share a context if they specify the same LBM configuration file and section.

The Hotspot FX Control adapter (part of the Hotspot TXTrading System adapter suite) now supports two new actions: connect and disconnect. See Hotspot FX Trading System Adapter.

In processing update messages, the Reuters RMDS Subscribing input adapter now uses cached item state to populate metadata fields for OMM message models, as it has been doing for the non-OMM MarketFeed model.

The StreamBase documentation for release 7.0.5 included the following updates independent of the changes described above:

This release includes several related features that improve the ability to run bundled StreamBase applications:

The new sbd switch --use-custom-logging has the same effect as setting the STREAMBASE_USE_CUSTOM_LOGGING environment variable, as described in Using StreamBase Logging. The advantage of the new switch is that it can be used when sbd is configured to run as a Windows service, so that an alternate logging system can be specified without needing to set a global environment variable.

The expression language was enhanced with the replace() function for strings. The new function operates much like the Java String.replace() function.

Zero copy Tuple setter methods were added to the Java API. See the Javadoc for Tuple.getAllocatedTuple() and the comments added for Tuple.getTuple() and Tuple.setTuple().

The JMS Reader and JMS Writer embedded adapters were updated to support creating JMS endpoints dynamically, if the target JMS server supports this feature. See Dynamic Endpoints on the JMS Input and Output Adapters page for details.

As of release 7.0.4, the Vhayu Subscription and Vhayu Query adapters were removed from the StreamBase base kit. Vhayu Technologies was acquired by Thomson Reuters in August, 2009, and Vhayu's proprietary subscribe and publish API was replaced with the standard Reuters RMDS protocol. Thus, to subscribe to or publish to a Vhayu Velocity or Reuters Tick Capture Engine tick-store database, you can now use the Reuters RMDS Subscribing Input and Publishing Output adapters.

The StreamBase documentation for release 7.0.4 included the following updates independent of the changes described above:

The sbd command now recognizes the -w or --working-directory option that takes an absolute or relative path as an argument. If used, the sbd startup code changes to the specified directory before starting the Server. See the sbd reference page for further details.

Events sent by the container subsystem of the system container's control stream were changed to report STARTING, STOPPING, and STOPPED events for containers in addition to the existing START event. Connections to the system.control stream can now be synchronous, but only when used with caution. See Using Control Stream Features for the details of these changes and a discussion of the caution. That page also adds documentation for the existing heartbeat subsystem of the control stream.

When using the FIX Adapter with the Appia FIX engine, time-based FIX fields (UTCTimestamp, LocalMarketTime, and so on) are mapped to StreamBase field types differently than for other supported FIX engines. For details, see Field Type Mapping on the FIX Adapter documentation page.

Adapters can set a log level independent of the logging for the server that hosts the containing application, as described in Separate Adapter Log Levels on the Using StreamBase Logging page. The independent Log Level adapter property was added to the following adapters as of release 7.0.3: RSS Reader, TIBCO Embedded Input and Output, Vertica Load, XML File Writer, and XML Over HTTP adapters.

The StreamBase documentation for release 7.0.3 includes the following updates independent of the above updates:

The Reroute Arcs function ( button or Ctrl+Alt+L) returns to Studio as of release 7.0.2, and the automatic arc layout feature of releases 7.0.0 and 7.0.1 is now disabled. As in the 6.6 release series, the Reroute Arcs function routes arcs around components, using curves and bends in the arcs as needed. With no arcs selected, this function acts on all arcs on the current canvas; with one or more arcs selected, it acts only on the selected arcs. Use this function when you are satisfied with the component layout of the current canvas, but want to add curved arcs.

The Rearrange components and arcs function ( button or Ctrl+L) now runs the Reroute Arcs function automatically. In 6.6.x, these were independent controls that required running each in sequence. These functions are discussed in Component and Arc Layout Controls on the EventFlow Editor Canvas page.

The context menu in the Servers view of StreamBase Manager has a new option, Connect Automatically. This option connects to the selected server URI and stores persistent connection information; statistics from that server begin to display when the connection is made. If the connected server goes down and restarts, StreamBase Manager automatically reconnects and continues monitoring. If you exit and restart StreamBase Manager later, you only need to select the server's entry in the Servers View to reestablish the connection. See StreamBase Manager.

The Oracle JDK installed for private use by StreamBase was updated to release 1.6.0_23. As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

The names of the .bin files that contain both RPM and archive installation options for Linux and Solaris were extended to include a build number as well as architecture and platform tags. This helps you distinguish similar installation files when installing an upgrade on several platforms. See Installing StreamBase on Linux and Installing StreamBase on Solaris.

The installers now check the current platform and architecture, and issue a warning if you attempt run a non-matching installer version. Finally, the unpack option for the archive installer on Linux was improved, as described in Installing StreamBase on Linux.

StreamBase bundle files contain a generated bundle-specific server configuration file, as described on Application Bundling. For this reason, starting with this release, an error message results if you use sbd -f sbd.sbconf with a bundle file argument.

Adapters can set a log level independent of the logging for the server that hosts the containing application, as described in Separate Adapter Log Levels on the Using StreamBase Logging page. The independent Log Level adapter property was added to the following adapters as of release 7.0.2: Lime Citrius, Regular Expressions Reader, Regular Expressions Socket Reader, Sybase RAP4, Reuters RMDS Publishing, Reuters RMDS Subscribing, and the StreamBase to StreamBase input and output adapters.

The StreamBase documentation for release 7.0.2 included the following updates independent of the above updates:

The Oracle JDK installed for private use by StreamBase was updated to version 1.6.0_31. As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

This release includes the Bloomberg Tradebook FX FIX adapter that allows a StreamBase application to connect to the trading infrastructure provided by Bloomberg Tradebook FX, and to exchange FIX messages with it. See Bloomberg Tradebook FX FIX Adapter.

For most purposes, StreamBase releases are well distinguished by their release numbers in three-position major.minor.maintenance format, such as 6.6.20. On rare occasions, you may need to report the fourth position build number. Starting with this release, the full four-position release number is visible from the command prompt in STREAMBASE_HOME/doc/VERSION.txt and in the documentation at the top of the Release Notes page.

There is a new page in the Authoring Guide, String Values in Parameters, that suggests a standard way to pass string values to expression language contexts without using escaped quotes or quotes within quotes in the parameter definition.

The Oracle JDK installed for private use by StreamBase was updated to version 1.6.0_30. As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

The sb-config command was updated to provide better support on UNIX for directories named with spaces. The Windows version of the command was not changed, and on UNIX, the Java-related command options were not changed. See the sb-config reference page for details.

The three Thomson Reuters RMDS adapters were renamed to reflect the new name of the protocol formerly known as RMDS: Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Real-Time, or TREP-RT. The adapters are otherwise unchanged. See:

The input adapters for IBM WebSphere MQ and Wall Street Systems were updated with two new properties: Include Depth Field and Syncpoint on Get. These properties are enabled by default for compatibility with previous releases of these adapters. Disabling both settings significantly improves performance of these adapters. See IBM WebSphere MQ Input Adapter and Wall Street Systems Input Adapter.

The description of the Queues View was updated and corrected for both StreamBase Monitor and StreamBase Manager.

The .NET Client Library was rewritten to improve the performance of creating tuples and accessing tuple field values, with initial tests showing a speedup of 10 to 40 times from the previous API. Most of the .NET API for building StreamBase clients is now a pure .NET implementation, although some classes (such as StreamBaseClient) remain based on the C++ API. (The .NET API for building StreamBase Server monitor applications is unchanged.)

Rewriting most of the API as pure .NET forced some changes in the interface, as described in Migrating .NET Clients in the API Guide. You may need to make source code changes for existing .NET client applications and recompile them in order to accommodate the new API.

The Timestamp class in the C++ Client Library now uses snap to end of month semantics for the setMonth() method. The following code fragment illustrates how this works:

Timestamp tm;
tm.setYear(2011);
tm.setMonth(10);
tm.setDayOfMonth(31);
// tm now represents October 31, 2011
tm.setMonth(2);
// tm now represents February 28, 2011

The Trading Technologies FIX adapter was updated to support through version 7.7.2 of the Trading Technologies data dictionary.

The Excel External adapter was updated such that the buffer-size configuration parameter and TUPLENUM tag are now limited to values between 1 and 1000. Prior to this change, there was no limit on buffer-size, and TUPLENUM was limited to values between 1 and 999.

As of this release, all Windows MSI installer files are digitally signed, including the installers for external adapters and Frameworks.

To provide better alignment of the StreamBase .NET Client Library with the Java Client Library, the .NET API was updated to add new field creation methods to StreamBase.SB.Schema, and to deprecate older field creation methods.

The Wombat MAMA Input adapter was updated to support version 5 of the MAMA API. To specify the use of MAMA version 5, in the adapter's Properties view, for the MAMA Version property, select 4.x and above, which is now the default setting.

The TBF Input adapter was updated to add new configuration options, QueueCapacity, RequestRetransmitOnHeartbeatTimeout, and to increase the default blocking capacity of the adapter.

JAR files provided by IBM that support WebSphere MQ are no longer shipped as part of the StreamBase kit. Documentation topics for the IBM WebSphere MQ Input and Output adapters and sample were updated to describe where to install the MQ JAR files you obtain from IBM.

JAR files provided by Deutsche Bank that support the AutobahnFX Trading System are no longer shipped as part of the StreamBase kit. Documentation topics for the AutobahnFX Trading System adapter and its sample were updated to describe where to install the Autobahn FX JAR files you obtain from Deutsche Bank.

The data dictionary for the UBS FIX adapter was updated to the latest version.

The E-mail Sender Output adapter was updated to send its e-mail messages in a separate, background thread and to add the new Outgoing Message Queue Capacity property. Set this to a value large enough to accommodate the maximum expected e-mail message burst.

The Log Output Adapter sample was revised to show three examples of formatting that the adapter can apply to log messages. The Log Output adapter topic in the Adapters Guide was revised, corrected, and expanded. The sample's topic in the Samples Guide was revised and expanded.

The Binary File Reader adapter now emits a close event tuple when it finishes reading a file.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.6.16 included the following changes independent of the above updates:

In the .NET Client Library, the StreamBase::SB::Timestamp class was made serializable.

The Thomson Reuters RMDS Subscribing Input adapter was updated to add useMarketfeedUpdateType=true to its default configuration file. For SSL connections when using the Market Feed message model only, this directs the adapter to emit Market Feed corrections as CORRECTION messages.

The Lime Citrius Quote adapter was updated to use version 2.0.6 of the Lime Citrius API.

The TBF Input adapter was updated to add a STAMP configuration parameter, RetranRetryWaitTime.

The output adapter in the FXall Relationship Trading Provider Adapter set was updated to add the Log XML Messages and INFO Level property. Previously, only the input adapter of this adapter set supported this option.

The Trading Technologies FIX adapter was updated to support version 7.6.5.29 of the Trading Technologies data dictionary.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.6.15 included the following changes independent of the above updates:

The Velocity Analytics tick-store database from Thomson Reuters is now supported for standard JDBC access.

The postShutdown() method of the Operator class was updated to more strictly wait for an operator or adapter's run threads to exit (or time out) before running. This strict behavior of postShutdown() is the default behavior as of this release, and improves the shutdown behavior of all operators and adapters, whether provided by StreamBase or custom. You can restore the postShutdown() method's non-strict behavior by setting the streambase.java-operator.unsynchronized-shutdown system property to true.

In previous releases, container connections were restricted to streams exiting one container and entering a stream in a separate container. As of this release, that restriction is relaxed, and you can configure stream to stream connections within the same container, where the destination and source container names are the same. Intra-container connections must be Asynchronous, and the same access restrictions apply: that is, streams you wish to connect to or from in sub-modules must be marked as Always exposed in EventFlow modules, or public in StreamSQL modules.

In StreamBase Server configuration files, the param child element of the data-source element accepts a new value, jdbc-query-timeout. This parameter specifies an integer number of milliseconds that StreamBase waits for each JDBC query operation to execute. The default is 0, which means wait forever for each query to return; this default matches the behavior of StreamBase before this parameter was added. Specify a value such as 15000 (15 seconds) to prevent StreamBase Server from hanging in rare cases where the JDBC server never responds to a query. See StreamBase Server Configuration File XML Reference.

The Drools operator was updated to add an optional status port specified with the new Enable status port property. This port conveys the status of rules entered at runtime on the dynamic rule port. The documentation page for the operator was updated to clarify the format of rules entered on this port.

The new nullif() function evaluates two arguments. If the arguments are equal, the function returns null; otherwise, the first argument is returned. This function can be used to evaluate fields before and after an event, and to send a field downstream only if it has changed, otherwise null.

The new eval() function takes either two or three arguments. With two arguments, the function evaluates a simple expression entered as a string and returns the result using the data type of the second argument. With three arguments, the second field contains a tuple, and the expression in the first field can be evaluated against any fields in that tuple. The third argument specifies the return data type. Because of environment limitations, the eval() function does not run successfully at the command prompt with sbd --eval, but runs as expected in EventFlow and StreamSQL expressions.

The Thomson Reuters RMDS Subscribing Input adapter was updated to better distinguish quotes from trades. The market data output port now contains an optional ResponseType field, which supersedes the UnsolicitedRefresh field. The field is enabled by selecting the Include OMM Response Type Field property in the Tuple Properties tab in the adapter's Properties view. The field contains SOLICITED or UNSOLICITED for refresh messages, or contains QUOTE, TRADE, CORRECTION, and so on, for update messages.

The Deutsche Bank AutobahnFX Trading System adapter was updated to support ladder rungs for swaps and to provide performance enhancements.

The CitiFX FIX adapter was updated to support the Executable Streaming Prices for Forwards product as well as ESP for Spot. Continue to select the Spot option in the adapter's Properties view for either ESP product.

The TBF Input adapter was updated to support the new MaxQueueLength and RetransRetryCount properties in the STAMP session configuration file. See TBF Input Adapter for details.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.6.14 included the following changes independent of the above updates:

Starting with this release, the FIX adapter can be configured to take advantage of a new FIX engine, StreamBaseFIX, in addition to the QuickFIX/J, CameronFIX, and Appia FIX engines already supported. StreamBaseFIX is derived from the B2Bits Antenna FIX engine from EPAM Systems, and allows high-speed, low-latency communication using the FIX protocol.

StreamBaseFIX can be used with the FIX adapter and with all StreamBase adapters that use the FIX protocol, including the Bolsa Commercio Santiago FIX, Bovespa, CitiFX FIX, Currenex, EBS, FXall FIX, Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading FX, Integral FX Inside FIX, LavaFX, Lime FIX, Nomura FX FIX, Raptor, Trading Technologies, and UBS FIX adapters.

The StreamBaseFIX engine is included with the base StreamBase kit, but its use is separately licensed. Contact StreamBase Systems Technical Support or your StreamBase Sales Engineer for further details.

The six StreamBase adapters that connect StreamBase applications to the Reuters infrastructure were rebranded as Thomson Reuters adapters. Functionality for all Thomson Reuters adapters remains the same as before.

The Oracle JDK installed for private use by StreamBase was updated to release 1.6.0_24. As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

In previous 6.6.x releases, a temporary working directory where a bundle's contents were unzipped was automatically created and used, and was silently and automatically deleted on sbd exit. Starting with release 6.6.13, the unzipped bundle's working directory contents are still deleted on exit under two circumstances:

If you use -w, but specify a path to a directory with any existing contents, that directory is preserved on sbd exit. You can use the new streambase.sbd.delete-working-bundle-dir system property to modify this delete on exit behavior. Set -Dstreambase.sbd.delete-working-bundle-dir=true to delete the working directory's contents even if you specify a non-empty path with -w. You can use the sbd command's -J option to specify the system property on the sbd command line.

In the Concurrency tab of the Properties view, the Number of instances field now takes a parameter in ${param} format, where param is defined in the Definitions tab of the EventFlow Editor of the same module, or is otherwise passed to the containing module. See Concurrency Options in the Administration Guide.

The expression language gained the new getServerURI() function that returns the StreamBase URI of the currently running server in the form sb://localhost:10000. The function reports the URI from the server's point of view, and thus always returns localhost as the host name. Use this function to obtain the port number plus any appended authentication parameters from a running server.

In previous releases, StreamBase samples and documentation recommended using systemproperty("streambase.uri") to retrieve this information. As of this release, the HA samples and documentation now show the use of getServerURI() instead.

Customers running multiple instances of StreamBase Server in the same JVM (which can happen when running a StreamBase JUnit test) need a way to distinguish the port number in the URI of separate server instances, which is not possible with a JVM-wide property. StreamBase Server continues to provide the streambase.uri system property in the 6.6.x release series, but the property is deprecated as of release 7.1.0. StreamBase Systems recommends migrating your code to use the new getServerURI() function to prepare for the deprecation of the streambase.uri property.

The expression language gained the new regexreplace() function, as described on the Expression Language Functions page.

The StreamBase base kit now includes the Bloomberg BPOD Subscribing Input adapter, which allows a StreamBase application to receive market data messages from a Bloomberg server. The adapter is described in Bloomberg BPOD Subscribing Input Adapter in the Adapters Guide, and has a sample, described in Bloomberg BPOD Adapter Sample.

The new Wombat MAMA Publishing Output adapter allows StreamBase applications to publish MAMA messages on a user-specified Wombat MAMA source. The new output adapter joins the existing Wombat MAMA Subscribing Input adapter. There are now two Wombat samples, one each for the Publishing Output and Subscribing Input adapters. These samples can be run together for testing, using one sample to publish messages, the other to receive them. In addition, both Wombat adapters were updated with the ability to load a data dictionary from a file.

The FXall Relationship Trading Provider Input adapter was updated with the following enhancements. See FxAll Relationship Trading Provider Adapter in the Adapters Guide for details.

The Thomson Reuters RMDS Subscribing Input Adapter was updated to include a field in the market data output port to receive the OMM sequence number.

The Deutsche Bank AutobahnFX Trading System adapter was updated to support a new Include Latency Data property in the adapter's Properties view. When selected, this property adds two latency measurement fields to the Quotes output tuple expressed in nanoseconds. The QuoteArrivalTime field records the time between delivering a quote to the adapter and the time that quote arrives in the containing adapter. The QuoteHandoffTime field records the time a Quotes tuple spends enqueued after the adapter has called sendOutputAsync().

The Alpha Trading Systems adapters, both EMAPI Market Data Feed and EMAPI Order Entry adapters, were updated to use version 4.5 of the Alpha Trading Systems API.

The Managed Publishing Adapter for Thomson Reuters RFA was updated to use version rfaj7.0.0.E2 of the RFA/Java library. This corrects a memory leak in that library.

A convenience method, confFilePath(), was added to ServerManagerFactory to make it easier to run StreamBase JUnit tests with explicit configuration files.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.6.13 included the following changes independent of the above updates:

This release introduces the -w and --working-directory options for the sbd command that allow you to specify a path to an existing directory from which to run StreamBase applications. When used in conjunction with a bundle file, this switch specifies the directory into which the bundle is unzipped before running its contents. See sbd.

The sbargen command has a new option, --if-modified. When used, it directs sbargen to check the target .sbar file's dependencies, and only rebuild the target if it is older than its dependencies.

The expression language was enhanced with a new function, isinterval(), that returns true if its timestamp argument is an interval timestamp.

The SBServerManager.loadApp() method in the com.streambase.sb.unittest package now loads precompiled archive files (.sbar files) as well as EventFlow and StreamSQL files. As before, specified files are located on the module search path.

Zero copy Tuple setter methods were added to the Java API. See the Javadoc for Tuple.getAllocatedTuple() and the comments added for Tuple.getTuple() and Tuple.setTuple().

When using the FIX Adapter with the Appia FIX engine, time-based FIX fields (UTCTimestamp, LocalMarketTime, and so on) are mapped to StreamBase field types differently than for other supported FIX engines. For details, see Field Type Mapping on the FIX Adapter documentation page.

The 29West LBM adapter was updated such that all instances of the adapter now share a context if they specify the same LBM configuration file and section.

The Hotspot FX Control adapter (part of the Hotspot TXTrading System adapter suite) now supports two new actions: connect and disconnect. See Hotspot FX Trading System Adapter.

The FXall Relationship Trading Provider Input adapter was enhanced to support the Use Custom Order Schema and Custom Order Schema properties on the adapter's Studio Properties page. Enable the Use option to specify the use of a custom schema with which to emit order tuples on the event port, then specify the custom schema itself in the Custom Order Schema field. In addition, the adapter now includes a field that contains the nanotime value at the time each callback was made from the FXall API into the adapter. See FXall Relationship Trading Provider Adapter for details.

In processing update messages, the Reuters RMDS Subscribing input adapter now uses cached item state to populate metadata fields for OMM message models, as it has been doing for the non-OMM MarketFeed model.

As of release 6.6.12, the Vhayu Subscription and Vhayu Query adapters were removed from the StreamBase base kit. Vhayu Technologies was acquired by Thomson Reuters in August, 2009, and Vhayu's proprietary subscribe and publish API was replaced with the standard Reuters RMDS protocol. Thus, to subscribe to or publish to a Vhayu Velocity or Reuters Tick Capture Engine tick-store database, you can now use the Reuters RMDS Subscribing Input and Publishing Output adapters.

Adapters can set a log level independent of the logging for the server that hosts the containing application, as described in Separate Adapter Log Levels. The independent Log Level adapter property was added to the following adapters as of release 6.6.12: RSS Reader, TIBCO Embedded Input and Output, Vertica Load, and XML File Writer, XML Over HTTP.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.6.12 included the following updates independent of the above updates:

The Oracle JDK installed for private use by StreamBase was updated to release 1.6.0_23. As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

In the FXall Relationship Trading Provider adapter, the output adapter's input schema was modified to support multiple legs. The top-level Bid and Ask fields have moved under a new top-level PriceLegs field, which contains lists of tuples, the schema of which now contains the former Bid and Ask fields. The Adapters Guide page for this adapter was updated to correct errors in the specification of input schemas. See FXall Relationship Trading Provider Adapter.

The Reuters RMDS Subscribing Input adapter was updated when used with RFA 6.5 that when configured for market price, the adapter now subscribes to just the FIDs corresponding to the fields in its output schema. See Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Real-Time Subscribing Input Adapter.

The EBS adapter and its data dictionary file were updated to support EBS Ai 6.1 FIX 1.3. See EBS Adapter.

The StreamBase to StreamBase adapters were updated to emit a connection down event tuple when the initial connection fails. See StreamBase to StreamBase Input Adapter.

The names of the .bin files that contain the RPM and archive installation options for Linux and Solaris were extended to include a build number as well as architecture and platform tags. This help you distinguish similar installation files when installing an upgrade on several platforms. See Installing StreamBase on Linux and Installing StreamBase on Solaris.

The installers now check the current platform and architecture and issue a warning if you attempt run a non-matching installer version. Finally, the unpack option for the archive installer on Linux was improved, as described in Installing StreamBase on Linux.

This release adds support for Vertica 4.1, in addition to 3.5 and 4.0.

Adapters can set a log level independent of the logging for the server that hosts the containing application, as described in Separate Adapter Log Levels. The independent Log Level adapter property was added to the following adapters as of release 6.6.11: Hotspot FX, Hotspot Itch, InfoReach TMS, and Interactive Data PlusFeed, HTTP Reader, IRC Reader, POP3 Reader, SMTP Reader, Lime Citrius, Regular Expressions Reader, Regular Expressions Socket Reader, Sybase RAP4, Reuters RMDS Publishing, Reuters RMDS Subscribing, and the StreamBase to StreamBase input and output adapters.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.6.11 included the following updates independent of the above updates:

In previous releases of StreamBase Studio, when using the Add Import feature of the Definitions tab for an EventFlow module, you could choose to import all items and, at the same time, import a selection of items. This is no longer supported. You can now import either all items or a set of selected items.

This release supports a new Java system property, streambase.operator.parameters.log-level. Specify an integer corresponding to the StreamBase log level in which you want operator property log entries included. Specify 1=ERROR, 2=WARN, or 3=INFO. When set to 1, 2, or 3, StreamBase log messages include one entry for every property setting for all operators and adapters that inherit from the Operator class in the StreamBase Client Library, including any custom Java operators and adapters. See StreamBase Java System Properties for an example log entry and further details.

The 29West LBM Publishing Output Adapter was updated to support a new property setting, Idle LBM Source Timeout, to specify the time, in seconds, to wait before an LBM source for an idle topic is discarded, or zero to disable expiring idle sources. See 29West LBM Publishing Output Adapter for details.

This adapter was also updated to support null elements in array fields in LBM messages. This support works in communications between a pair of StreamBase Subscribing and Publish LBM adapters.

Finally, the version of the LBM Java API JAR file included with StreamBase was updated to version 4.1.1.

In addition to the new fields added in release 6.6.8, the Log adapter was updated to support another new property, Custom MessageFormat. The adapter's description in the Adapters Guide was extended and clarified. See Log Output Adapter for details.

By default, the FIX adapter (and all adapters than inherit from it) participates in the standard StreamBase logging system that uses Logback logging, as described in Using StreamBase Logging. In previous releases, if you configured StreamBase to use Log4J as an alternative logging system, the FIX adapter did not participate. Starting with release 6.6.9, when using the FIX adapter with the QuickFIX/J FIX engine, you can configure the FIX adapter to participate in Log4J logging in cases where the whole StreamBase application is so configured. To do this, add the directive logtype=slf4j to the [Default] section of the FIX adapter's configuration file.

The StreamBaseMonitor class in the StreamBase Java Client Library was extended to support the new isClosed() method. Use this method to determine the status of a client connection to StreamBase Server after the initial connection is made.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.6.9 included the following updates independent of the above updates:

The Oracle JDK installed for private use by StreamBase was updated to release 1.6.0_22. As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

The new StreamBase Reuters RMDS Contribution Adapter allows a StreamBase application to contribute market data via off-stream OMM POST messages to a Reuters Posting Provider. Contributed data is then typically published to Reuters subscribers. See Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Real-Time Contribution Output Adapter. The adapter has a sample, described on Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Real-Time Contribution Output Adapter Sample.

The FIX adapter, and all adapters that inherit from the baseline FIX adapter, were updated to support two new commands for the Command port when using the QuickFIX/J FIX engine: ConnectionStatus and ConnectionStatusAll. As a response, one or more tuples (depending on the command and the number of configured FIX sessions) is issued on the Admin Message port with __ExtraInfo set to either Connected or Disconnected. SenderCompID and TargetCompID are also correctly set to identify the session in question. See FIX Adapter.

The 360T SuperSonic TEX adapter's FIX data dictionary was updated to the latest specification.

The EBS Ai adapter's FIX data dictionary was updated to conform to the latest specification.

The Alpha Trading Systems EMAPI Market Data Feed adapter was updated to use version 4.4 of the Alpha Trading Systems API.

The Lime Citrius Quote Input adapter was updated to support the following property settings: Enable Aggregate by Price, Enable Snapshot Book, Enable Trade Replay. See Lime Citrius Quote Input Adapter.

The Log adapter was updated to support two new properties, Logger Name and Message Prefix, that replace the Message Identifier property. See Log Output Adapter for details.

The E-mail Sender adapter was updated to support SSL connections to an SMTP server and to support specifying the content type of messages (text/plain, text/html, and so on). See E-mail Sender Output Adapter.

When using the <operator-parameter> element of the server configuration file, you can now narrow the setting to apply only to a particular operator by specifying the StreamBase path to the operator in the form ContainerName.OperatorName.ParamName. Previously, operator parameter settings applied globally. See <operator-parameter> in the server configuration XML reference.

Customer sites can configure and support site-specific StreamBase component exchanges, as described in StreamBase Studio Panel and Site-Specific Component Exchange. Starting with release 6.6.8, in-house component exchanges can use the HTTPS protocol, in which case, StreamBase Studio prompts for credentials on the specified server before allowing access to components.

Because of changes in StreamBase release 7, StreamBase monitoring utilities such as sbmonitor or StreamBase Manager from release 6.6 cannot connect to or monitor StreamBase Servers from a 7.x release. If you attempt to monitor a 7.x server, you instead receive messages like unable to connect or Monitoring is disabled on this server. Try again using a 7.x monitor utility.

StreamBase now supports accessing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 from StreamBase applications, using the JDBC interface.

This release adds the FXall Relationship Trading Provider adapter, allows a StreamBase application to receive quote requests, publish prices, and accept deals in the FXall Request for Quote (RFQ) trading environment. The StreamBase application acts as the Maker in this environment. The adapter is described in FXall Relationship Trading Provider Adapter, and has a sample described in FXall Relationship Trading Provider Adapter Sample.

This release adds the Morningstar Quotes Feed input adapter, which allows a StreamBase application to receive market data from Morningstar servers, as described in Morningstar Quotes Feed Input Adapter. The adapter has a sample described in Morningstar Quotes Feed Adapter Sample.

The EBS adapter was updated to support the new AllowFixedDateNDFs field that was added to the Logon Request - User Request message by by the EBS Ai FIX 1.1 specification.

The adapter was also updated to recognize new UserData properties added to the EBS Ai specification without requiring a recompiled adapter. New properties only need to be added to the adapter configuration file in a format like this example: UserData.AllowFixedDateNDFs=true For compatibility with previous releases, existing UserData properties do not need to specify the UserData. prefix. For example: AutoCancelDuplSession=true

The StreamBase to StreamBase input and output adapters were updated with a new check box property, Connect on adapter init. With the default setting of enabled, the adapters attempt to connect to the other server during adapter initialization, which can block the startup of the containing StreamBase Server. When disabled, the adapters start at the time they are needed. You can specify this property in the form ConnectOnInit as a parameter in the URI of a container connection string, as described in Remote Container Connection Parameters. The Query Table Replication HA sample was updated to take advantage of and illustrate this new property.

The Deutsche Bank AutobahnFX adapter was updated to support connect and disconnect commands sent to the adapter in the Command field of the Subscriptions input port.

Adapters can set a log level independent of the logging for the server that hosts the containing application, as described in Separate Adapter Log Levels. The independent Log Level adapter property was added to the following adapters as of release 6.6.7: Activfeed, Binary File Reader, Binary File Writer, CSV File Writer, CSV Socket Writer, Digitec D3, Deutsche Bank AutobahnFX, and E-mail Sender.

The <operator-parameter> element of the server configuration file was extended to accept a qualified name in StreamBase path notation as well as a simple parameter name. When the name attribute specifies a simple parameter name such as ParamOne, as in previous releases, all operators in the application that have a parameter named ParamOne are set with the specified value. You can now narrow the setting to a particular operator by specifying the StreamBase path to the operator in the form ContainerName.OperatorName.ParamName. If the operator is in a submodule, you must include the module's name in the path: ContainerName.ModuleName.OperatorName.ParamName. This sets the value of ParamName only for the specified operator. All other operators with a parameter named ParamName remain unset.

The expression language was augmented with the new random_tuple() function that allows you to generate tuples filled with random field values given a schema.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.6.7 included the following updates independent of the above updates:

StreamBase added support for accessing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 from StreamBase applications, using the JDBC interface.

The Oracle JDK installed for private use by StreamBase was updated to release 1.6.0_21. (On Windows, the installed JDK is 1.6.0_21 build 7.) As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

The Raptor adapter allows a StreamBase application to connect to a Raptor Trading Systems venue and to exchange FIX messages with it. See Raptor Adapter.

The CitiFX FIX adapter allows a StreamBase application to connect to and exchange FIX messages with the following Citi products:

See CitiFX FIX Adapter.

The IBM WebSphere MQ adapters and the Wall Street Systems adapters were updated with a new property, SSL Cipher Suite. If this property remains empty, the adapter falls back to using a non-SSL connection. Use the property to specify the name of an SSL security package such as SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA. For this to work, the StreamBase Server hosting the adapter must be started with a set of JVM arguments that specify a truststore file and related values. For details, see IBM WebSphere MQ Input Adapter, Wall Street Systems Input Adapter, or their output adapter counterparts.

The TIBCO Rendezvous Subscribing Input Adapter now has a Raw Message Field Name property. Use this to specify the name of a field of type string or blob in the output schema to receive the raw Tibrv message. See TIBCO Rendezvous Subscribing Input Adapter.

The Wombat MAMA Input adapter was updated to allow matches on symbols with spaces appended to the symbol name.

The Lime Citrius Quote Input Adapter now uses version 2.0.4 of the Lime Citrius API. This corrects a bug causing incorrect processing of Modify Execution messages.

The Log adapter now supports independent error log level settings.

The categories for adapter samples in the Load StreamBase Sample dialog in Studio were reorganized into functional groups.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.6.6 included the following updates independent of the above updates:

The new 360T SuperSonic TEX adapter allows a StreamBase application to connect to the 360T SuperSonic TEX trading infrastructure and to exchange FIX messages with it. See 360T SuperSonic TEX Adapter.

The new Integral FX Inside FIX adapter allows a StreamBase application to connect to the Integral FX Inside trading infrastructure and to exchange FIX messages with it. See Integral FX Inside FIX Adapter.

The new 29West LBM Subscribing Input adapter allows a StreamBase application to receive messages published to one or more 29West LBM topics. The 29West LBM Publishing Output adapter allows a StreamBase application to publish LBM messages to one or more LBM topics. See 29West LBM Subscribing Input Adapter and 29West LBM Publishing Output Adapter.

Support for the Vertica database, either with native connectivity or through JDBC, was extended to support Vertica versions 3.5 and 4.0.

The Reuters RMDS Publishing Output adapter was updated to allow publishing OMM REAL32 and REAL64 price fields using a StreamBase tuple field whose schema has exactly two sub-fields. The first sub-field is of type int to publish a REAL32 or type long to publish a REAL64; the second sub-field of type int contains the number of digits to the right of the decimal point. For example, to publish a price of 1.23, use a tuple field whose sub-fields are 123 and 2. See Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Real-Time Publishing Output Adapter.

The ActivFeed Input adapter was updated to use version 1.10.0.0 of the Activ SDK.

The Log Output adapter was updated to add a new check box, Display Tuple Field Names, on the Adapter Properties tab of the Properties view. See Log Output Adapter.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.6.5 included the following updates inherited from release 6.5.9:

The Drools operator was updated to accept dynamic update of rules without restarting the application. This feature is described in Using the Drools Operator and is illustrated in the Drools sample, Drools Operator Sample.

StreamBase adapters that inherit from the FIX adapter now have their venue-specific data dictionaries specified internally as the default for each adapter. You can still override these settings by specifying a custom data dictionary in the FIX engine's configuration file, as described on the primary FIX adapter's page. This change applies to the following adapters: Bovespa, Currenex, EBS/ICAP, FXall, GS, LavaFX, Lime FIX, Trading Technologies, and UBS. (The Nomura FX adapter uses the standard FIX data dictionary, and thus does not need to specify a venue-specific default dictionary.)

The UBS Fx2B FIX adapter was renamed the UBS FIX adapter. The adapter continues to allow connections to a UBS FX trading venue using the UBS Fx2B API, which was updated to version 1.11. In addition, the adapter can now connect to a UBS equities trading venue using the DMA, DSA, and/or ATS FIX APIs. You select between FX and Equities connection types using the new Market control in the Adapter Properties tab of the adapter's Properties view. See UBS FIX Adapter.

The Bovespa adapter allows a StreamBase application to connect to Brazil's BM&FBovespa stock exchange (commonly known as the Bovespa exchange), and to exchange FIX messages with it. See Bovespa Adapter.

The Nomura FX FIX adapter allows a StreamBase application to connect to the Nomura B-2-B FX trading infrastructure and to exchange FIX messages with it. See Nomura FX FIX Adapter.

The Lime FIX adapter allows a StreamBase application to connect to a Lime FIX venue, and to exchange FIX messages with it. See Lime FIX Adapter. This new adapter is independent of the existing Lime Citrius Quote Input Adapter.

The StreamBase FIX adapter was updated with a new property, Logon When Application Starts, in the Adapter Properties tab of its Properties view. In most cases, leave the check box in its default selected state. When cleared, the adapter connects to its configured FIX venues when it receives a Connect command on its command input port. See FIX Adapter.

The IBM WebSphere MQ adapter was updated to add a new property, Unicode Encoding. Use this property to specify which of three encoding formats are used to encode and decode Unicode payloads. See IBM WebSphere MQ Input Adapter and IBM WebSphere MQ Output Adapter.

The schema of the Trading Events output port of the MarketFactory Trading input adapter now has one more field, text. This holds the textual description of a trading event, if available. See MarketFactory™ Trading Adapter.

StreamBase documentation is now available online with an integrated search feature. The new online documentation is at http://docs.streambase.com. See Using the Help System for assistance using search and other features of the StreamBase Help and Documentation system.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.6.4 included the following updates, independent of the changes above:

In a previous release, the StreamBase to StreamBase Input adapter was updated to support a filtered subscribe expression for limiting the tuples emitted from the adapter to those matching the expression. As of releases 6.5.8 and 6.6.3, the same feature is allowed in URLs used when specifying a remote container connection, as described in Remote Container Connection Parameters.

The Trading Technologies adapter allows a StreamBase application to connect to a Trading Technologies venue, and to exchange FIX messages with it. See Trading Technologies Adapter.

The Admin port of the FIX Input adapter was updated to include three fields: MsgSeqNum, SendingTime, and LastMsgSeqNumProcessed.

Error messages reported by the Properties view for embedded adapters are now more detailed and provide better reporting of the location of the error. These messages now report, when possible, the exact configuration element with the problem, and provide a hyperlink to take you to that location.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.6.3 included the following updates, independent of the changes above:

The version of the Sun JDK installed for private use by StreamBase is now 1.6.0_20. As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

This release introduces support for custom file readers to read non-standard, proprietary, or binary files as the source of a stream of input tuples for feed simulations. Your Java file reading code must extend one of the classes in the com.streambase.sb.feedsim package added to the StreamBase Client Library with this release. StreamBase now provides a way to use your custom class instead of its internal CSV-reading code in conjunction with the Feed Simulation Editor's Data File option. This feature is described in Feed Simulation with Custom File Reader and has a sample, described in Feed Simulation Custom Reader Sample.

In StreamBase Studio preferences, you can now specify a site-specific URL from which the StreamBase Component Exchange dialog is to retrieve its list of available components. Use this feature to set up an in-house component exchange site for sharing StreamBase components among a group of developers. Contact StreamBase Technical Support for guidance in setting up an in-house component exchange site.

In the Modules tab of the Properties view for an Extension Point operator, clicking the Add or Edit buttons results in the Add or Edit Module Instance dialog. Both dialogs have gained a Choose button that opens a module selection dialog restricted to modules on the current project's module search path.

Release 6.5.0 introduced a menu option in the Studio Package Explorer view in Windows: select a project folder, right-click, and from the context menu select StreamBase → Open StreamBase Command Prompt Here, which opens a StreamBase Command Prompt with the selected project as its current directory. Starting with releases 6.5.7 and 6.6.2, in 64-bit StreamBase installations, this feature automatically opens a 64-bit StreamBase Command Prompt — that is, a command prompt with %STREAMBASE_HOME%\bin64 first in the PATH, ahead of %STREAMBASE_HOME%\bin.

The New StreamBase StreamSQL Application dialog now includes an Implement Interfaces option, like its New EventFlow Application counterpart.

The Extract as Module feature now works if the selection includes a Query Table. See Extracting a Module

The StreamBase Tervela Subscribing Input Adapter allows a StreamBase application to receive messages published to one or more Tervela topics. The adapter has two output ports: one that emits status tuples, and a second that emits tuples representing received Tervela messages. See Tervela Subscribing Input Adapter.

The StreamBase Tervela Publishing Output Adapter allows a StreamBase application to publish Tervela messages to one or more Tervela subjects. See Tervela Publishing Output Adapter.

The Comstock adapter was renamed to accurately reflect the current owners of the former Comstock data feed, Interactive Data, and to reflect the current name for the service, PlusFeed. See Interactive Data PlusFeed Input Adapter.

The CSV Socket Writer output adapter now has an option to operate in server mode, listening for and accepting connections from remote clients. See CSV Socket Writer Output Adapter.

The StreamBase Alpha Trading Systems EMAPI Order Entry adapters were updated to support Alpha Release 4.3.1, which includes two new features. The Order Cancel on Disconnect feature is represented by the cancelOnLogout field added to the schema of several of the adapter's input and output ports, while the Passive Only order feature is represented by the passiveOnly field. See Alpha Trading Systems EMAPI Order Entry Adapter for details.

The MarketFactory™ Trading Adapter was updated to use version 1.80 of the MarketFactory Whisperer Client API.

All StreamBase command line utilities were updated to accept one or more –J options to specify arguments and system property settings to pass to the JVM that runs the command. Arguments to –J are passed literally to the JVM. For example: sbd -J-Xmx1g appname.sbapp starts StreamBase Server with the -Xmx1g JVM option. You can use –J as a quick alternative to specifying the STREAMBASE_JVM_ARGS environment variable.

The sbc dequeue command now supports the --all-containers option, which dequeues from all streams in all containers running on the specified Server. Both the --all and --all-containers options now support =input and =output modifiers. For example, --all=input restricts the output to all input streams in the specified container, while --all-containers=output restricts the output to all output streams in all containers. Without an = modifier, both commands dequeue from both input and output streams.

The sbc enqueue (and jsbc enqueue) commands now report the line number of an error, and, when possible, report the offending field name. The jsbc command's behavior and error messages were updated to more closely resemble the sbc command.

sbargen --version returns the StreamBase release number.

The following expression language functions were updated:

As of release 6.5.13, the Vhayu Subscription and Vhayu Query adapters were removed from the StreamBase base kit. Vhayu Technologies was acquired by Thomson Reuters in August, 2009, and Vhayu's proprietary subscribe and publish API was replaced with the standard Reuters RMDS protocol. Thus, to subscribe to or publish to a Vhayu Velocity or Reuters Tick Capture Engine tick-store database, you can now use the Reuters RMDS Subscribing Input and Publishing Output adapters.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.5.13 included the following updates: independent of the above updates:

The StreamBase Twitter adapter lost its ability to connect to the Twitter service after a change in the way the Twitter service authenticates third-party connections. Accordingly, the Twitter adapter was removed from the base StreamBase kit in anticipation of a new Twitter adapter to be found in the StreamBase Component Exchange.

The Error Streams sample and its Eclipse Cheat Sheet documentation were updated to reflect its current behavior in recent releases.

The Oracle JDK installed for private use by StreamBase was updated to release 1.6.0_22. As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK.

The Raptor adapter allows a StreamBase application to connect to a Raptor Trading System venue and to exchange FIX messages with it. The Raptor adapter is already supported on the StreamBase 6.6 and 7.0 release series, and is now supported for the 6.5 series as of 6.5.11.

The TBF adapter was updated for multicast support, as described in TBF Input Adapter. The adapter now also reports its internal queue size in response to the Operator.size() method. This allows the queue size to be seen in the Operator Size column of the Operators view of StreamBase Manager, sbmonitor, the Profiling view of the SB Test/Debug perspective, and in the output of the sbprofile command.

The FIX adapter, and all adapters that inherit from the baseline FIX adapter, were updated to support two new commands for the Command port when using the QuickFIX/J FIX engine: ConnectionStatus and ConnectionStatusAll. As a response, one or more tuples (depending on the command and the number of configured FIX sessions) is issued on the Admin Message port with __ExtraInfo set to either Connected or Disconnected. SenderCompID and TargetCompID are also correctly set to identify the session in question. See FIX Adapter.

The Wombat MAMA Input adapter was updated to allow matches on symbols with spaces appended to the field name.

The Alpha Trading Systems EMAPI Market Data Feed adapter was updated to use version 4.4 of the Alpha Trading Systems API.

Because of changes in StreamBase release 7, StreamBase monitoring utilities such as sbmonitor or StreamBase Manager from release 6.5 cannot connect to or monitor StreamBase Servers from a 7.x release. If you attempt to monitor a 7.x server, you instead receive messages like unable to connect or Monitoring is disabled on this server. Try again using a 7.x monitor utility.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.5.11 included the following update, independent of the changes above:

StreamBase 6.5 now supports interaction with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 through its JDBC interface. See Supported Configurations.

The Oracle JDK installed for private use by StreamBase was updated to release 1.6.0_21. (On Windows, the installed JDK is 1.6.0_21 build 7.) As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

The MarketFactory adapters now use version 2.5 of the MarketFactory API. The Market Data and Trading adapters now have a property setting, Use Automatic Failover, in their Properties views. When selected, the Host Name and Port fields are dimmed and the list of available hosts and ports is taken from the configuration file instead. This file can include more than one host, in which case the adapter connects to the next host in the list if the current connection becomes unavailable. The default behavior remains unchanged, that the adapter connects only to the specified host and port.

In the MarketFactory Trading adapter, the Trading Event Entry schema was modified slightly: in the tradingEventName field, the possible value OTTRADECAPTURE was renamed TRADECAPTURE. In the Trading Event schema, the messageTimestamps field was removed.

In the Market Data adapter, the onLocalCurrency field was removed from the Market Data Entry schema.

The FIX input and output adapters gained four new properties on the Adapter Properties tab of their Properties views. The four new check boxes are labeled Use name Field to Identify Sessions, where name is either SenderSubID, SenderLocationID, TargetSubID, or TargetLocationID. When selected, the adapter considers the named field when looking for a session. All values are unselected by default, which means the adapter does not use those fields to identify sessions.

The FIX adapter was updated so that the fields BeginString, SenderCompID, and TargetCompID are no longer mandatory.

The FIX adapter's handling of the QuickFIX/J configuration file was updated to apply settings such as Username and Password in the [DEFAULT] section to all sessions, unless a setting is overridden in the [SESSION] section.

When using the CameronFIX FIX engine, the FIX adapters now use version 6.4 of CameronFIX.

Documentation of the behavior of the FIX adapter when logging out of and disconnecting from a FIX venue was clarified.

The data dictionary used by the Lime Citrius Quote input adapter was updated to reflect the latest Lime Citrius specification. Newer fields such as ContraBroker and NoContraBroker are now available.

The CSV Writer adapter now has an optional control port used to specify a new output filename (which can include the full path). It also now has an optional event port that emits the same type of tuples as the CSV Reader adapter does for file access events.

The optional control port and event port are each activated via check boxes on the File Creation tab of the adapter's Properties view. The control port schema has a single field, which must be of type string. If a new file specified via the control port cannot be opened for any reason, the adapter continues writing to the original output file.

The optional event port emits tuples when the output file is opened or closed, or when any effort to do either fails. The only exception is the initial opening of the output file, whose name is a required adapter property. This takes place at a point during the adapter's startup processing when tuples cannot yet be written to output streams.

The Log Output adapter was updated to add a new check box, Display Tuple Field Names, on the Adapter Properties tab of the Properties view. See Log Output Adapter.

If your application runs StreamBase Server with many dozens of client connections, you can now set the system property streambase.sbd-shrink-after-process for the server. This forces client buffers to shrink after each use instead of remaining a fixed size, which reduces the overall memory footprint of the server, at the expense of higher memory churn and consequent garbage collection.

The sbadmin listConnections command now reports the size of the enqueue buffer for each connection. The documentation for listConnections was updated to include all fields reported by the command. See sbadmin.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.5.10 included the following update, independent of the changes above:

The sbprofile command was extended with several new features and behavior changes to make gathering and analyzing operator statistics more meaningul:

The syntax for resolving environment variables in the server configuration file was extended to support default values expressed using := (colon-equals). For example, ${AUTH:=false} means use the value of $AUTH, if set with a non-null value, or use false otherwise. The default value cannot be another environment variable, but can be null. The HA and table-repl samples were updated to take advantage of this feature.

In the StreamBase Server configuration file, the <authentication> element has two new parameters, adminuser and adminpassword, which allow HA configurations to run in conjunction with StreamBase authentication. The HA and table-repl samples were updated to take advantage of this feature.

Support for the Vertica database, either with native connectivity or through JDBC, was extended to support Vertica versions 3.5 and 4.0.

The Bovespa adapter allows a StreamBase application to connect to Brazil's BM&FBovespa stock exchange (commonly known as the Bovespa exchange), and to exchange FIX messages with it. See Bovespa Adapter.

The Nomura FX FIX adapter allows a StreamBase application to connect to the Nomura B-2-B FX trading infrastructure and to exchange FIX messages with it. See Nomura FX FIX Adapter.

The JMS adapters were extended to support connecting to Solace Systems' hardware-based middleware routing products. An example JMS adapter configuration for Solace is provided in JMS Input and Output Adapters.

The StreamBase FIX adapter was updated with a new property, Logon When Application Starts, in the Adapter Properties tab of its Properties view. In most cases, leave the check box in its default selected state. When cleared, the adapter connects to its configured FIX venues when it receives a Connect command on its command input port. The adapter was updated to re-read its message store before each logon operation, to keep message sequence numbers up to date for cases when the adapter restarts, but receives a Connect command some time later. See FIX Adapter.

The IBM WebSphere MQ adapter was updated to add a new property, Unicode Encoding. Use this property to specify which of three encoding formats are used to encode and decode Unicode payloads. See IBM WebSphere MQ Input Adapter and IBM WebSphere MQ Output Adapter.

The schema of the Trading Events output port of the MarketFactory Trading input adapter now has one more field, text. This holds the textual description of a trading event, if available. See MarketFactory™ Trading Adapter.

The MarketFactory Enhanced Market Data input adapter was updated to change its event output port's info field to text, for consistency with the above change, and to add the rejectReason and feedMarketStyleList fields to the event output port's schema. See MarketFactory™ Enhanced Market Data Input Adapter.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.5.9 included the following updates, independent of the changes above:

The version of the Sun JDK installed for private use by StreamBase is now 1.6.0_20. As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

The StreamBase TBF Input Adapter allows a StreamBase application to receive Securities Trading and Message Access Protocol (STAMP) market data messages from the Toronto Broadcast Feed (TBF) and TSXV Broadcast Feed (CBF). The new adapter is described in TBF Input Adapter.

This release introduces support for custom file readers to read non-standard, proprietary, or binary files as the source of a stream of input tuples for feed simulations. Your Java file reading code must extend one of the classes in the com.streambase.sb.feedsim package added to the StreamBase Client Library with this release. StreamBase now provides a way to use your custom class instead of its internal CSV-reading code in conjunction with the Feed Simulation Editor's Data File generation option. This feature is described in Feed Simulation with Custom File Reader and has a sample, described in Feed Simulation Custom Reader Sample.

The Data File Options dialog of the Feed Simulation Editor now has a Lines to skip option. Use this control to skip a header line as an alternative to using the First row as header option, or use it to start reading a large data file at an arbitrary preferred starting point. See the Generation Method: Data File section of Using the Feed Simulation Editor.

In release 6.5.4, the StreamBase to StreamBase Input adapter was updated to support a filtered subscribe expression for limiting the tuples emitted from the adapter to those matching the expression. As of 6.5.8, the same feature can now be specified as a URL parameter when specifying a remote container connection, as described in Remote Container Connection Parameters.

Error messages reported by the Properties view for embedded adapters are now more detailed and provide better reporting of the location of the error. These messages now report, when possible, the exact configuration element with the problem, and provide a hyperlink to take you to that location.

The Admin port of the FIX Input adapter was updated to include three fields: MsgSeqNum, SendingTime, and LastMsgSeqNumProcessed.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.5.8 included the following updates, independent of the changes above:

Release 6.5.0 introduced a menu option in the Studio Package Explorer view: select a project folder, right-click, and from the context menu, select StreamBase → Open StreamBase Command Prompt Here. This opens a StreamBase Command Prompt with the selected project as its current directory. Starting with release 6.5.7, in 64-bit StreamBase installations, this feature automatically opens a 64-bit StreamBase Command Prompt — that is, a command prompt with %STREAMBASE_HOME%\bin64 first in the PATH, ahead of %STREAMBASE_HOME%\bin.

The output adapter's submitCancel request was changed to take a request ID instead of an order ID.

The Hotspot FX control adapter has the following changes in 6.5.7:

The following change for the Hotspot FX control adapter was made in 6.5.6:

The MarketFactory™ Trading Adapter was updated to use version 1.80 of the MarketFactory Whisperer Client API.

The StreamBase Tervela Subscribing Input Adapter allows a StreamBase application to receive messages published to one or more Tervela topics. The adapter has two output ports: one that emits status tuples, and a second that emits tuples representing received Tervela messages. See Tervela Subscribing Input Adapter.

The StreamBase Tervela Publishing Output Adapter allows a StreamBase application to publish Tervela messages to one or more Tervela subjects. See Tervela Publishing Output Adapter.

The StreamBase Alpha Trading Systems EMAPI Order Entry adapters were updated to support Alpha Release 4.3.1, which includes two new features. The Order Cancel on Disconnect feature is represented by the cancelOnLogout field added to the schema of several of the adapter's input and output ports, while the Passive Only order feature is represented by the passiveOnly field. See Alpha Trading Systems EMAPI Order Entry Adapter for details.

A new property, Send Publish Acknowledgement, was added to the StreamBase IBM WebSphere MQ Adapter. When enabled, the adapter emits a tuple on its status port with type=Messsage and action=Published each time an MQ message is successfully queued to the MQ queue. See IBM WebSphere MQ Input Adapter.

sbargen --version returns the StreamBase release number.

The CSV Socket Writer output adapter now has an option to operate in server mode, listening for and accepting connections from remote clients. See CSV Socket Writer Output Adapter.

The StreamBase MarketFactory Trading Adapter was updated to support version 1.76 of the MarketFactory API.

The Hotspot FX control adapter was updated with the following change in release 6.5.6:

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.5.6 included the following updates, independent of the changes above:

Starting with release 6.5.5, the base release of Eclipse that underlies StreamBase Studio was upgraded from 3.5.1 to 3.5.2, which resolves an issue of unresponsive Studio buttons on certain Linux systems. If you add third-party Eclipse plug-ins to Studio, make sure they are compatible with Eclipse 3.5.2.

Release 6.5.5 adds Oracle 11g to the list of tested and supported JDBC-compliant databases.

This release implements a new typechecking algorithm that results in a considerable speedup when making small changes in large EventFlow applications.

This release adds a new version of the JAR file that implements the StreamBase Java Client API. The new JAR file in streambase-install-dir\lib is named sbclient-no-logging.jar, and provides the Client API without any logging support. Use this version of the file if your application needs to bundle a version of SLF4J that conflicts with the one provided by StreamBase Systems. To use this JAR file, you must arrange for a compatible version of SLF4J, along with a properly configured logging back end, to appear on the classpath. The new JAR file is in addition to the two existing JAR files that implement the Client API, as described in Using StreamBase Logging.

StreamBase has long provided an installer for the StreamBase .NET Client Library redistributables package, for you to install on target PCs that will run a StreamBase client application built with the .NET Client Library. Starting with release 6.5.5, StreamBase also provides installer merge modules for the .NET Client library. If you are building your own installer for your client application, you can incorporate these merge modules into your installer for a single, integrated installation experience. Both options are described in Redistributing the .NET Client Library.

The StreamBase installer for Windows was updated to add registry entries that identify the location of the StreamBase .NET Client Library files. This change results in the StreamBase .NET Client Library appearing in the Add Reference dialog in Microsoft Visual Studio, so that references to the StreamBase .NET API can be automatically selected. See Add Reference in Visual Studio for details.

The Excel External Adapter was updated to support explicit publishing of null using the configured null value string. See Excel External Adapter.

The GAIN GTX adapter was updated to support a new release of the GTX API, and adds support for GTX's OrderListener interface, which allows clients to receive asynchronous callbacks when the status of an order changes. The new interface is implemented as a new, fifth output port in the input adapter, as described in the Order Status Output Port Schema section of GAIN GTX Adapter.

The IBM WebSphere MQ and Wall Street Systems adapters now have the following updates:

This release includes a suite of updates to lower the chattiness of administration messages from, and improve the robustness of, the Appia FIX engine used in conjunction with the FIX adapter. The Appia configuration file gained a new setting, engine-heartbeat-interval, as described in FIX Adapter.

For several releases, the sbbundle command has offered a –i option, which allows you to specify a comma-separated list of files or directories in an application's project folder that you do not want included in the bundle. Starting with this release, the application bundling dialog in Studio provides the same option. You can use this feature to exclude the state files for your version control system; for example, for Subversion, enter .svn. See Application Bundling.

A redundant link to the Reuters RFA Adapter's documentation page was removed from the Windows Start menu. This page is provided as part of the Adapters Guide on Managed Publishing Adapter for Thomson Reuters RFA.

Both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 are now supported platforms for running StreamBase Studio and StreamBase Server on x86_32 and x86_64 hardware.

The version of the Sun JDK installed for private use by StreamBase is now 1.6.0_18. As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

The GAIN GTX adapter allows a StreamBase application to receive Foreign Exchange market data from, place orders with, and receive trading-related events from a GAIN GTX ECN server. The GAIN GTX adapter is a single, bidirectional adapter that can both send and receive GTX messages. To facilitate its use in EventFlow diagrams, the adapter is represented as an input adapter and an output adapter, with separate icons in the StreamBase Studio Palette view. These icons must be used as a pair that shares a single GTX connection. The new adapter is described in GAIN GTX Adapter, and has a sample, described in GAIN GTX Adapters Sample.

The Microsoft Excel External adapter received several updates:

The adapter's documentation page was updated to reflect these changes. The adapter's publish sample now illustrates the new ClearReadBuffer method.

The StreamBase to StreamBase Input adapter now provides a Filtered Subscribe Expression field on the Adapter Properties tab of its Properties view. If empty, the filtered subscription option is not used, and the adapter passes all tuples. To use a filtered subscription, enter a StreamBase expression that narrows the tuples passes by the adapter to those matching the expression.

The CSV File Reader adapter now has a new adapter property, Map Control Port to Event Port. Enable this option to pass all information received on the control input port to the event output port. When enabled, this property adds a tuple field to the tuple received by the event output stream. The additional field contains the entire tuple of the control input stream passed to the adapter. See CSV File Reader Input Adapter.

The Wombat MAMA Input adapter was updated with new handling for recap timeouts from the Wombat server: the adapter now logs these timeouts, then ignores them and continues processing.

The version of the Lime Citrius API supported by the Lime Citrius adapter was updated from 1.6.4 to 1.6.5.

The Data File option of the Feed Simulation Editor now recognizes the data files with file name extension .bin.gz. Files with that extension are presumed to have been generated with the StreamBase Binary File Writer adapter with that adapter's compression option enabled. See Generation Method: Data File for the list of file name extensions recognized by the Feed Simulation mechanism.

The Data File Options dialog was also updated to clarify error messages when a specified timestamp column does not match the Timestamp format field. Error messages now show the column number (or column name for a data file with headers) of the data file column with the offending timestamp. This helps you pinpoint the source of the error in large data files with more than one column of timestamp data.

On Windows installations, the entries placed in the Start menu by the StreamBase installer now have release numbers for the StreamBase Command Prompt and for links to documentation. This change helps distinguish StreamBase versions on computers that have more than one StreamBase release installed, when searching with the Start menu's Search field on Windows Vista or Windows 7.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.5.4 included the following updates, independent of the changes above:

Starting with this release, StreamBase Systems hosts the StreamBase Component Exchange, which is an online repository of StreamBase applications, libraries, and utilities, created by StreamBase users and members of the StreamBase team, made freely available to all users of StreamBase. You can download components from the Component Exchange in two ways:

Both methods are described on StreamBase Component Exchange.

The version of the Sun JDK installed for private use by StreamBase is now 1.6.0_17. As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

In StreamBase Studio, when the EventFlow Editor is active, Studio now has a new format for the dialogs invoked from Insert → Input Adapter (or the A I keyboard shortcut) and from Insert → Output Adapter (or the A O keyboard shortcut). These resizable dialogs list both Global Adapters and Project Adapters (if any exist in the current module search path). You can type a search string in the filter field to narrow the list of adapters to those whose name matches your search string. See EventFlow Editor Keyboard Shortcuts for examples.

When using a CSV or data file as input for a feed simulation, it might happen that the column containing date information is in one column while the time information is in another column. This release introduces the Timestamp Builder feature, which allows you to designate one or more CSV or data file columns as containing portions of a single timestamp. The new feature is described in Using the Timestamp Builder Feature.

The feed simulation system can now read binary files generated with the StreamBase Binary File Writer adapter. Such files must have the .bin extension, including files generated with the Binary File Writer's compression option. You must generate the binary files with the same release of StreamBase currently running the feed simulation.

New in this release are the FXall Relationship Trading Adapters, a matched pair of input and output adapters. These adapters allow a StreamBase application to create trades or deals that can then be executed in the FXall Request for Quote trading environment. The new adapters are described in FXall Relationship Trading Customer Adapter and have a sample, described in FXall Relationship Trading Customer Adapter Sample. The new adapter pair is separate from the FXall FIX adapter, which remains in the product.

The Wall Street Systems input and output adapters both gained new User ID and Password properties in their Properties views, which allows them to be used at sites that require authentication when connecting with the Wall Street Systems server. See Wall Street Systems Input Adapter and Wall Street Systems Output Adapter for details.

The configuration file for the Appia FIX engine now includes a checkremote-id setting. Use this setting to specify that outgoing messages are to be returned to the application when the connection id down, rather than stored and forwarded, the default behavior. See FIX Adapter.

Automatic HA was introduced in release 6.5.0. As of release 6.5.3, automatic leadership control was extended to allow you to specify your own HA container name instead of using the automatically created container named HA. Using your own HA container allows you to specify container connections and other relationships, while still taking advantage of automatic leadership control. The new feature is implemented as the new ha-container parameter for the high-availability element in the server configuration file. See <high-availability> and Automatic HA.

The StreamBase expression language gained the following new functions:

The StreamBase Alpha Trading System EMAPI Order Entry adapter allows a StreamBase application to submit trade requests to the Alpha Trading System venue. The adapter appears as two icons on the EventFlow canvas in StreamBase Studio: an output adapter for sending orders, and an input adapter for receiving order status updates from the venue. These adapters are described in Alpha Trading Systems EMAPI Order Entry Adapter and have a sample, described in Alpha Trading System EMAPI Order Entry Adapter Sample.

The StreamBase Alpha Trading System EMAPI Market Data Feed (MDF) Adapter allows a StreamBase application to subscribe to market data from from the Alpha Trading System venue. You can configure one to thirteen Alpha output flows as separate output ports for the adapter. For some of these output flows, Alpha supports replay capability, snapshot capability, or both. This adapter is described in Alpha Trading Systems EMAPI Market Data Feed Adapter and has a sample, described in Alpha Trading System EMAPI Market Data Feed Adapter Sample.

The StreamBase expression language gains the following new functions:

The description of the Query operator's Operation Settings tab was revised and expanded.

The version of the Sun JDK installed for private use by StreamBase is now 1.6.0_16. As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

Since release 6.4.0, EventFlow application files (such as myApp.sbapp) can import definitions of constants and named schemas from a separate EventFlow file (such as definitions.sbapp). As of release 6.5.1, when Studio attempts to open a file with imports, but the imported file cannot be located, Studio displays a warning message that the situation must be resolved. Go to the Definitions tab of the newly opened application file to identify the missing module imports file.

StreamBase Studio now preserves the last-opened tab of each EventFlow application file (Editor tab, Definitions tab, and so on) and reopens each file to the same tab.

The Lime Citrius API used by the StreamBase Lime Citrius Quote Input adapter was upgraded from version 1.4 to version 1.6.1.

In previous releases, the StreamBase .NET Client library could fail to load into certain AppDomains, instead showing load errors that included the phrase BadImageFormatException or "The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest." This issue was resolved by building the StreamBase .NET client assembly in a different way. In addition, the StreamBaseMonitor API is now delivered as a separate, platform-independent assembly. There are no StreamBaseClient or StreamBaseMonitor API changes as a result of this build change.

.NET client applications that do not use the StreamBaseMonitor API do not need to make any changes. .NET client applications that do use the StreamBaseMonitor API now need to add a reference to the new assembly named sbmonitor.

The TIBCO Subscribing Input adapter was updated with a new property, Enable Dynamic Subscriptions Port. When enabled, this property gives the adapter another input port to which you send control tuples that cause the adapter to dynamically subscribe to or unsubscribe from subjects.

The TIBCO Rendezvous Subscribing Input and Publishing Output adapters now have a greatly expanded set of available conversions between StreamBase and Tibrv data types. These changes include:

The StreamBase Alpha Trading Systems EMAPI Order Entry adapters were updated to support Alpha Release 4.3.1, which includes two new features. The Order Cancel on Disconnect feature is represented by the cancelOnLogout field added to the schema of several of the adapter's input and output ports, while the Passive Only order feature is represented by the passiveOnly field. See Alpha Trading Systems EMAPI Order Entry Adapter for details.

The C++ and .NET Client Libraries were enhanced to allow enqueue-only clients to enable heartbeating. In previous releases, a C++ or .NET enqueue-only client could lose its connection to StreamBase Server and not discover that fact the next time it enqueued. Now, if an enqueue-only client calls StreamBaseClient::enableHeartbeating(), it detects a lost connection the first time it calls StreamBaseClient::enqueue() after the connection loss.

In addition to the enableHeartbeating() method, two other methods were ported from the Java client API to the C++ and .NET APIs. These newly-added methods are:

The Wombat MAMA Input adapter was updated with new handling for recap timeouts from the Wombat server: the adapter now logs these timeouts, then ignores them and continues processing.

The IBM WebSphere MQ and Wall Street Systems adapters now have the following updates:

This release includes a suite of updates to lower the chattiness of administration messages from, and improve the robustness of, the Appia FIX engine used in conjunction with the FIX adapter. The Appia configuration file gained a new setting, engine-heartbeat-interval, as described in FIX Adapter.

The version of the Sun JDK installed for private use by StreamBase is now 1.6.0_18. As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

The input and output adapters for Wall Street Systems and for IBM WebSphere MQ gained the following new features:

For details, see Wall Street Systems Input Adapter, Wall Street Systems Output Adapter, IBM WebSphere MQ Input Adapter, and IBM WebSphere MQ Output Adapter.

The new environment variable STREAMBASE_USE_CUSTOM_LOGGING makes it easier to replace StreamBase's default Java logging system with an alternative logging system. Set this variable to true to automatically call sbclient-no-logging-backend.jar wherever sbclient.jar would be used. Under these conditions, the JAR files that implement your alternative logging system must be locatable on StreamBase Server's classpath (and StreamBase Studio's classpath), or must be specified in a jar child element of the java-vm element of the server configuration file. See Using StreamBase Logging for more on using alternative logging systems.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.4.12 included the following updates, independent of the changes above:

The configuration file for the Appia FIX engine now includes a checkremote-id setting. Use this setting to specify that outgoing messages are to be returned to the application when the connection id down, rather than stored and forwarded, the default behavior. See FIX Adapter.

The Lime Citrius Quote Adapter was updated to support the Lime server's top-of-book view. This feature is enabled by toggling the new Enable Top-of-Book check box on the Subscription Properties tab of the adapter's Properties view. See Lime Citrius Quote Input Adapter

The version of the Sun JDK installed for private use by StreamBase is now 1.6.0_17. As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

The MarketFactory API used by the StreamBase MarketFactory adapters was upgraded to version 1.6.6. This change affects the input schema used in both the Market Factory Trading Input adapter and the MarketFactory Enhanced Market Data Input adapter.

The JMS adapters were updated to include an initial context builder for connecting to an IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere MQ Server. See JMS Input and Output Adapters for an example of the configuration settings that use this option.

The StreamBase expression language gained the following new function:

The StreamBase Digitec D3 Streaming Interface input adapter allows a StreamBase application to retrieve market data from the Digitec D3 Pricing Engine. The adapter is described in Digitec D3 Streaming Interface Adapter, and has a sample, described in Digitec D3 Streaming Interface Adapter Sample.

The StreamBase Alpha Trading System EMAPI Order Entry adapter allows a StreamBase application to submit trade requests to the Alpha Trading System venue. The adapter appears as two icons on the EventFlow canvas in StreamBase Studio: an output adapter for sending orders, and an input adapter for receiving order status updates from the venue. These adapters are described in Alpha Trading Systems EMAPI Order Entry Adapter and have a sample, described in Alpha Trading System EMAPI Order Entry Adapter Sample.

The StreamBase Alpha Trading System EMAPI Market Data Feed (MDF) Adapter allows a StreamBase application to subscribe to market data from from the Alpha Trading System venue. You can configure one to thirteen Alpha output flows as separate output ports for the adapter. For some of these output flows, Alpha supports replay capability, snapshot capability, or both. This adapter is described in Alpha Trading Systems EMAPI Market Data Feed Adapter and has a sample, described in Alpha Trading System EMAPI Market Data Feed Adapter Sample.

The Lime Citrius API used by the StreamBase Lime Citrius Quote Input adapter was upgraded from version 1.4 to version 1.6.1.

The StreamBase expression language gains the following new functions:

The following expression language function is newly documented in this release:

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.4.9 included the following updates, independent of the changes above:

The MarketFactory™ Trading adapter allows a StreamBase application to place orders and receive trading-related events from a MarketFactory Trading server. The MarketFactory Trading adapter is a bidirectional adapter implemented as a pair of input and output adapters as described in MarketFactory™ Trading Adapter. The adapter has a sample, described in MarketFactory Adapters Sample.

The MarketFactory Enhanced Market Data input adapter allows a StreamBase application to receive enhanced FX market data from a MarketFactory Enhanced Market Data server. This adapter is described in MarketFactory™ Enhanced Market Data Input Adapter and shares the sample for the MarketFactory Trading adapters described above.

The IBM WebSphere MQ input adapter allows a StreamBase application to retrieve messages from an IBM WebSphere MQ server. The input adapter is described in IBM WebSphere MQ Input Adapter.

The IBM WebSphere MQ output adapter allows a StreamBase application to publish messages to an IBM WebSphere MQ server. The output adapter is described in IBM WebSphere MQ Output Adapter. Both input and output adapters share a sample, described in IBM WebSphere MQ Adapter Sample.

The Wall Street Systems input adapter allows a StreamBase application to retrieve messages from an Wall Street Systems server. The input adapter is described in Wall Street Systems Input Adapter.

The Wall Street Systems output adapter allows a StreamBase application to publish messages to an Wall Street Systems server. The output adapter is described in Wall Street Systems Output Adapter. Both input and output adapters share a sample, described in Wall Street Systems Adapter Sample.

In previous releases, the Microsoft Excel adapter, when configured to enqueue to multiple StreamBase Server instances, issued an error when encountering the first non-responding server instance. The adapter was updated to create enqueuers for all currently active servers.

The TIBCO Rendezvous Subscribing Input adapter was updated to process cache requests in the background using a configurable number of threads that are created on demand and are destroyed when all cache requests have been serviced. The cache request timeout is now a configurable option, as described in TIBCO Rendezvous Subscribing Input Adapter.

The CSV File Reader adapter now reports a failure to open its specified CSV file on its optional event port.

StreamBase Server was enhanced to preserve interstream ordering in cases where a single stream of tuples is split into multiple input queues entering the StreamBase application. Multiple input queues might occur when an adapter (such as the FIX adapter) routes incoming messages to multiple ports, or when an adapter is configured to run in separate parallel threads.

Interstream ordering is now preserved when parallel modules are specified, and when a Java operator uses Operator.sendOutputAsync() with multiple output ports. However, interstream ordering is not preserved when mixing sendOutputAsync() and sendOutput().

A consequence of this update is that queues are now created on demand, and only when parallel modules are in use. The names of queues (as seen with sbc list and other commands) now have an instance variable appended. For example, a parallel module queue formerly named default.InputStream1 is now named default.InputStream1:0. If there are multiple instances of this set of queues, the sequence number is incremented.

The version of the Sun JDK installed for private use by StreamBase is now 1.6.0_16. As before, you can override this installed default to use a different supported JDK as described in Using an External JDK. The supported JDK versions are listed in Supported Configurations.

The FIX Input and Output adapters now include support for the Appia FIX engine from Orion Tradesoft in addition to the QuickFIX/J and CameronFIX FIX engines already supported. The option to use the Appia FIX engine applies to the basic FIX adapter as well as to all StreamBase adapters based on the FIX adapter. See FIX Adapter for information on configuring the FIX adapters to use the Appia FIX engine.

The CSV File Writer and Binary File Writer adapters were updated to prevent two or more instances of either adapter from writing to the same file simultaneously. Application authors should be aware that this change does not prevent a non-StreamBase external application from writing to the same file being written to by these adapters.

The CSV File Writer Adapter was updated to generate rollover file names that use 24-hour notation when using the Max Roll Seconds property.

The Comstock adapter now reports its internal queue size on the console and shows warnings when the queue size crosses certain size thesholds.

The Schema and StreamBaseClient classes now have constructors that call out every exception, which helps you build well-behaving custom adapters.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.4.7 included the following updates and corrections, independent of the changes above:

The Lime Citrius API used by the StreamBase Lime Citrius Quote Input adapter was upgraded from version 1.4 to version 1.5.3.

In previous releases, the StreamBase .NET Client library could fail to load into certain AppDomains, instead showing load errors that included the phrase BadImageFormatException or "The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest." This issue was resolved by building the StreamBase .NET client assembly in a different way. In addition, the StreamBaseMonitor API is now delivered as a separate, platform-independent assembly. There are no StreamBaseClient or StreamBaseMonitor API changes as a result of this build change.

.NET client applications that do not use the StreamBaseMonitor API do not need to make any changes. .NET client applications that do use the StreamBaseMonitor API now need to add a reference to the new assembly named sbmonitor.

The TIBCO Subscribing Input adapter was updated with a new property, Enable Dynamic Subscriptions Port. When enabled, this property gives the adapter another input port to which you send control tuples that cause the adapter to dynamically subscribe to or unsubscribe from subjects.

The TIBCO Rendezvous Subscribing Input and Publishing Output adapters now have a greatly expanded set of available conversions between StreamBase and Tibrv data types. These changes include:

The embedded TIBCO Rendezvous Subscribing Input and Publishing Output adapters were updated with the following features:

When using a JDBC database as the source of input tuples for a feed simulation, you must make the database vendor's JDBC JAR file available to Studio. Previous releases recommended copying the JAR file to a certain location in the StreamBase installation. Starting with this release, you can also use the new STUDIO_BOOT_CLASSPATH environment variable as an alternative.

Independent of either method above, in order to use the command-line sbfeedsim with a JDBC data source, you must place the JDBC JAR file in the standard CLASSPATH. These subjects are discussed in Feed Simulation with a JDBC Data Source.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.4.6 includes the following updates and corrections, independent of the changes above:

This release includes a new option in the Feed Simulation Editor that allows you to specify two or more streams as members of a group of streams in the current feed simulation file for which StreamBase coordinates delivery of tuples in timestamp order. See Using Synchronized Timestamp Groups for more on using this feature.

The Palette view's Global Operators and Adapters drawer now includes the new Field Serializer operator. When your application only needs to process a small subset of the fields of a large tuple, you can use the Field Serializer operator to serialize the unused fields of a large tuple into a single blob field, leaving untouched the fields that your application must process. At the end of your processing chain, after processing the fields of interest, use the same operator to deserialize the blob field to reconstruct the tuple's unused fields. This effectively compresses a large tuple as it passes through your application, for a potential throughput and performance improvement. For details, see Using the Field Serializer Operator.

The CSV File Reader adapter was enhanced with the ability to process records as they are appended to the input CSV file. This feature is controlled with three new properties on the Adapter Properties tab of the Properties view: Tail Mode, Ignore Existing Records, and Tail Update Interval. See CSV File Reader Input Adapter for details.

The Wombat MAMA Input adapter has a new property, Recover Gaps, in the Subscriptions tab of the Properties view. This property allows the adapter to recover from sequence number gaps by requesting a recap. See Wombat MAMA Input Adapter.

The FIX adapter was modified to exhibit the following behavior. When attempting to link with a FIX Output adapter, a FIX Input adapter first looks for a match inside its own module. If none is found it attempts to link with FIX Output adapters in other modules of the application. In the latter case, the Output adapter is expected to have a name unique across the entire application to avoid ambiguities.

When using the New Operator or New Adapter wizards to generate code for a custom operator or adapter, in previous releases, when you specified a property of type enum, the wizards generated code that used the EnumPropertyDescriptor class in the BeanInfo file for your component's class. Starting with 6.4.5, these wizards now generate code that uses the new JavaEnumPropertyDescriptor class. See the Javadoc documentation for the StreamBase Client API for more on the difference between these classes.

For StreamBase 6.4.x only, on Linux platforms only, StreamBase Studio may fail to start if you are using a newer release of the xulrunner package that accompanies Firefox 3.x. In the 6.4 documentation, see the Xulrunner Issues page in the Installation Guide for special instructions.

Release 6.4.5 introduces the following new features in the StreamBase Java Client library.

For details, and for an example of using TupleCopier, see the Javadoc documentation for the StreamBase Client library.

The StreamBase documentation for release 6.4.5 includes the following updates and corrections, independent of the changes above:

StreamBase has long provided four JMS adapters: input and output adapters in both embedded and external forms. Before this release, all four JMS adapters were supplied in a separate installation kit. Starting with release 6.4.4, the embedded JMS Reader and JMS Writer adapters are now installed as part of the base kit. The two external JMS adapters are still provided in a separate installation kit, for possible installation on a machine separate from the host running StreamBase Server.