About This Document


The Exchange Module Customization Guide provides a description of the basic functionality of the iPlanet Market Maker Exchange module, including instructions for customizing the exchange framework and for integrating the Exchange module with an external module.

This preface contains the following sections:

• Audience

• What's in This Document

• Documentation Conventions

• The Document Online

• Product Support

Audience

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The audience for this document is the programmer who is customizing the iPlanet Market Maker Exchange module.

What's in This Document

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The following table summarizes what each chapter covers.

Table 1    Chapter Summary 

If you want to know about this	See this chapter
Description of contents of this guide; listing of documentation set; information on product support	"About This Document"
An overview of the Exchange module and how an exchange works	Chapter 1 "Introduction to Exchange"
Instructions for defining the attributes of the Exchange module	Chapter 2 "Defining the Exchange Attributes"
Instructions for defining the matching and trading rules of the Exchange module	Chapter 3 "Defining the Matching and Trading Rules"
Instructions for integrating the Exchange module with the OMS module.	Chapter 4 "Integrating Exchange with an External System"
Structure of the message oriented middleware (MOM) and Java message service (JMS) tags	Appendix A "MOM Listener and JMS Tags"

Documentation Conventions

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This document uses the following conventions:

• The monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, Application Program Interface (API) and language elements (such as method names and property names), file names, path names, directory names, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) tags, and any text that must be typed on the screen.

• The italic font is used in code to represent placeholder parameters (variables) that should be replaced with an actual value.

• Brackets ([]) are used to enclose optional parameters.

• A slash (/) is used to separate directories in a path. (Windows NT supports both the slash and the backslash.)

The Document Online

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You can find the Exchange Module Customization Guide online in Portable Document Format (PDF) and HTML formats at the following web site:

http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/

Product Support

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If you have problems with your iPlanet Market Maker software, contact iPlanet customer support using one of the following mechanisms:

• iPlanet online support web site at:

  http://www.iplanet.com/support/online/

  From this location, the CaseTracker and CaseView tools are available for logging problems.

• The telephone dispatch number associated with your maintenance contract

So that the technical support staff can best assist you in resolving problems, please have the following information available when you contact support:

• Description of the problem, including the situation where the problem occurs and its impact on your operation.

• Machine type, operating system version, and product version, including any patches and other software that might be affecting the problem.

• Detailed steps on the methods you have used to reproduce the problem.

• Any error logs or core dumps.