The FIX Adapted for Streaming (FAST) protocol is an emerging standard defined by the FIX Protocol, Ltd., as a method of compressing messages to be exchanged over a network connection.
The Sybase RAP FAST Feed Handler provides a mechanism for passing FAST-formatted data to the RAP Publisher. The Sybase RAP FAST feed handler connects directly to a market data feeds, receives FAST-encoded messages, decodes them, and makes the decoded data available to message handler plug-ins.
The Sybase RAP FAST Feed Handler supports FAST SCP 1.1
See “FAST Feed Handler configuration” for a sample fastfeedhandler.xml template and list of XML element definitions.
