The .NET StockTrader provides a blueprint for how companies can advance their business through Microsoft’s application platform technologies, including Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), to create service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions.
As performance and agility are key concerns when building mission-critical applications, .NET StockTrader also includes instructions for performance testing across distributed environments.
More than ever, securities firms are demanding that their applications leverage existing IT investments, adhere to service-oriented architecture principles, be created in a common development environment, and present an interface that is familiar and easy to use, said Stevan Vidich, technical architect for capital markets solutions in the US financial services group at Microsoft. .NET StockTrader addresses those concerns. It was designed to showcase how to implement SOA on Windows Server and the .NET Framework 3.0.
.NET StockTrader also illustrates full interoperability with Java-based enterprise systems. In particular, StockTrader can transparently interconnect with IBM’s Trade Performance Benchmark Sample for Websphere Application Server V6.1. This means that financial services developers can use StockTrader as a model for building .NET systems that interconnect with IBM’s WebSphere Application Server.
