Feed Handlers

Feed handlers manage data that arrives directly from an exchange, like the NYSE, or a consolidated service provider, like Reuters. Using the publisher API, the feed handlers then send the data over the network to one or more subscribers.

• Publisher API
  RAP includes a publisher API library, which is used by feed handlers to format incoming market data, and send data to subscribers by user datagram protocol (UDP) multicasting.
• FAST Feed Handler
  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.
• Demo Feed Handler
  The demo feed handler demonstrates network message flow and is intended to familiarize developers with the publisher API.