Rai API/RaiMsg Java
The Rai API provides the interface applications use to establish connection to the system and to send and receive messages. It is the programmer's main entry point to the market data platform. Applications publish messages and subscribe to subjects using calls in this module.
The RaiMsg module of the Rai API provides the capabilities to extract data from messages and to pack messages for sending. RaiMsg is Rai Technology's wire format compatible version of the TibMsg API. The RaiMsg API offers complete compatibility with the TibMsg API and wire format and extends it to allow clients to gain maximum benefit from their market data infrastructure.
RaiMsg maintains backwards compatibility with TibMsg in an updated and fully supported API. The RaiMsg API provides all the benefits of TibMsg including a single API wrapper for SASS, SASS2 , TibMsg and RVMsg, and a compact market data specific wire format.
RaiMsg also extends TibMsg by offering:
- Encoding of SASS, TibMsg and RVMsg.
- Extensions for the creation and updating of SASS forms providing important support for server side applications that need to maintain these forms.
By providing more access to your existing market data, RaiMsg preserves investment in existing infrastructure and offers new options for utilizing market data throughout the organization. .
Rai API including RaiMsg is a core component of the Rai Technology market data infrastructure products including Rai Cache, Rai ciRV and Rai Insight. Both as a stand-alone API and as part of these applications, Rai API s opening up the world of high-performance market data.