spring-net/doc/reference/src/nms-quickstart.xml

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<chapter id="nms-quickstart">
  <title>NMS QuickStart</title>

  <section>
    <title>Introduction</title>

    <para>The NMS quick start application demonstrates how to use asynchronous
    messaging to implement a system for purchasing a stock. To purchase a
    stock, a client application will send a stock request message containing
    the information about the stock, i.e. ticker symbol, quantity, etc. The
    client request message will be received by the server where it will
    perform business processing on the request, for example to determine if
    the user has sufficient credit to purchase the stock or if the user is
    even allowed to make the purchase due to existing account restrictions.
    These are typically external processes as well. Usually the server
    application will persist state about the request and forward it on to an
    execute venue where the actual execution of the stock request is
    performed. In addition, market data for the stock will be sent from the
    server process to the client. The high level exchange of information is
    shown below.</para>

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  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Message Destinations</title>

    <para>To implement this flow using messaging the following queues and
    topics will be used. All requests from the client to the server will be
    sent on the queue named APP.STOCK.REQUEST. Responses to the requests will
    be sent from the server to the client on a queue unique to each client. In
    this example the queue name is of the form APP.STOCK.&lt;UserName&gt;, and
    more specifically is configured to be APP.STOCK.JOE. Market data does not
    need to be delivered to an individual client as many client applications
    are interested in this shared information. As such, the server will send
    market data information on a topic named APP.STOCK.MARKETDATA. The
    messaging communication between the server and the execution venue is not
    included as part of the application. An local implementation of the
    service interface that represents the execution venue is used instead of
    one based on messaging or another middleware technology. The messaging
    flow showing the queues and topics used is shown below.</para>

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    <para>Queues are shown in red and topics in green.</para>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Gateways</title>

    <para>Gateways represent the service operation to send a message. The
    client will send a stock request to the server based on the contract
    defined by the <classname>IStockService</classname> interface .</para>

    <programlisting>    public interface IStockService
    {
        void Send(TradeRequest tradeRequest);
    }</programlisting>

    <para>The server will send market data to the clients based on the
    contract defined by the <classname>IMarketDataService</classname>
    interface.</para>

    <programlisting>    public interface IMarketDataService
    {
        void SendMarketData();
    }</programlisting>

    <para>The market data gateway has no method parameters as it is assumed
    that implementations will manage the data to send internally. The
    <classname>TradeRequest</classname> object is one of the data objects that
    will be exchanged in the application and is discussed in the next
    section.</para>

    <para>The use of interfaces allows for multiple implementations to be
    created. Implementations that use messaging to communicate will be based
    on the Spring's <classname>NmsGateway</classname> class and will be
    discussed later. stub or mock implementations can be used for testing
    purposes.</para>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Message Data</title>

    <para>The <classname>TradeRequest</classname> object shown above contains
    all the information required to process a stock order. To promote the
    interoperability of this data across different platforms the
    <classname>TradeRequest</classname> class is generated from an XML Schema
    using Microsoft's Schema Definition Tool (xsd.exe). The schema for trade
    request is shown below</para>

    <programlisting>&lt;xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified" 
           targetNamespace="http://www.springframework.net/nms/common/2008-08-05"&gt;

  &lt;xs:element name="TradeRequest"&gt;
    &lt;xs:complexType&gt;
      &lt;xs:sequence&gt;
        &lt;xs:element name="Ticker" type="xs:string"/&gt;
        &lt;xs:element name="Quantity" type="xs:long"/&gt;
        &lt;xs:element name="Price" type="xs:decimal"/&gt;
        &lt;xs:element name="OrderType" type="xs:string"/&gt;
        &lt;xs:element name="AccountName" type="xs:string"/&gt;
        &lt;xs:element name="BuyRequest" type="xs:boolean"/&gt;
        &lt;xs:element name="UserName" type="xs:string"/&gt;
        &lt;xs:element name="RequestID" type="xs:string"/&gt;
      &lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
    &lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
  &lt;/xs:element&gt;

&lt;/xs:schema&gt;
</programlisting>

    <para>Running xsd.exe on this schema will result in a class that contains
    properties for each of the element names. A partial code listing of the
    TradeRequest class is shown below</para>

    <programlisting>//     This code was generated by a tool.
    public partial class TradeRequest {

        public string Ticker {
            get {
                return this.tickerField;
            }
            set {
                this.tickerField = value;
            }
        }
        
        public long Quantity {
            get {
                return this.quantityField;
            }
            set {
                this.quantityField = value;
            }
        }
      
      // Additional properties not shown for brevity.

    }</programlisting>

    <para>The schema and the <classname>TradeRequest</classname> class are
    located in the project <classname>Spring.NmsQuickStart.Common</classname>.
    This common project will be shared between the server and client for
    convenience.</para>

    <para>When sending a response back to the client the type
    <classname>TradeResponse</classname> will be used. The schema for the
    <classname>TradeResponse</classname> is shown below</para>

    <programlisting>&lt;xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified" 
           targetNamespace="http://www.springframework.net/nms/common/2008-08-05"&gt;

  &lt;xs:element name="TradeResponse"&gt;
    &lt;xs:complexType&gt;
      &lt;xs:sequence&gt;
        &lt;xs:element name="Ticker" type="xs:string"/&gt;
        &lt;xs:element name="Quantity" type="xs:integer"/&gt;
        &lt;xs:element name="Price" type="xs:decimal"/&gt;
        &lt;xs:element name="OrderType" type="xs:string"/&gt;
        &lt;xs:element name="Error" type="xs:boolean"/&gt;
        &lt;xs:element name="ErrorMessage" type="xs:string"/&gt;
      &lt;/xs:sequence&gt;
    &lt;/xs:complexType&gt;
  &lt;/xs:element&gt;

&lt;/xs:schema&gt;</programlisting>

    <para>The <classname>TradeResponse</classname> type also generated from a
    schema using xsd.exe. A partial code listing is shown below</para>

    <programlisting>//     This code was generated by a tool.

    public partial class TradeResponse {

        public string Ticker {
            get {
                return this.tickerField;
            }
            set {
                this.tickerField = value;
            }
        }
        
        public long Quantity {
            get {
                return this.quantityField;
            }
            set {
                this.quantityField = value;
            }
        }

      // Additional properties not shown for brevity.

    }</programlisting>

    <para>The market data information will be sent using a Hashtable data
    structure.</para>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Message Handlers</title>

    <para>When the <classname>TradeRequest</classname> message is received by
    the server, it will be handled by the class
    <classname>Spring.NmsQuickStart.Server.Handlers.StockAppHandler
    </classname>shown below</para>

    <programlisting>    public class StockAppHandler
    {
        private IExecutionVenueService executionVenueService;

        private ICreditCheckService creditCheckService;

        private ITradingService tradingService;
        
        public TradeResponse Handle(TradeRequest tradeRequest)
        {
            TradeResponse tradeResponse;
            IList errors = new ArrayList();
            if (creditCheckService.CanExecute(tradeRequest, errors))
            {
                tradeResponse = executionVenueService.ExecuteTradeRequest(tradeRequest);
                tradingService.ProcessTrade(tradeRequest, tradeResponse);
            }
            else
            {
                tradeResponse = new TradeResponse();
                tradeResponse.Error = true;
                tradeResponse.ErrorMessage = errors[0].ToString();
            }
            return tradeResponse;
        }
    }</programlisting>

    <para>The stub implementations of the services, located in the namespace
    <literal>Spring.NmsQuickStart.Server.Services.Stubs</literal>, will result
    in always sending back a error-free trade response message. A realistic
    implementation would likely have the execution venue and trading service
    be remote services and the trading service could be implemented as a local
    transactional service layer that uses spring's declarative transaction
    management features.</para>

    <para>The client will receive a TradeResponse message as well as a
    Hashtable of data representing the market data. The message handle for the
    client is the class Spring.NmsQuickStart.Client.Handlers.StockAppHandler
    and is shown below.</para>

    <programlisting>    public class StockAppHandler
    {

        // definition of stockController omitted for brevity.

        public void Handle(Hashtable data)
        {
            // forward to controller to update view
            stockController.UpdateMarketData(data);
        }

        public void Handle(TradeResponse tradeResponse)
        {
            // forward to controller to update view
            stockController.UpdateTrade(tradeResponse);
        }
    }</programlisting>

    <para>What is important to note about these handlers is that they contain
    no messaging API artifacts. As such you can write unit and integration
    tests against these classes independent of the middleware. The missing
    link between the messaging world and the objects processed by the message
    handlers are message converters. Spring's messaging helper classes, i.e.
    SimpleMessageListenerContainer and NmsTemplate use message converters to
    pass data to the handlers and to send data via messaging for gateway
    implementations</para>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Message Converters</title>

    <para>The implementation of IMessageConverter used is
    <classname>Spring.NmsQuickStart.Common.Converters.XmlMessageConverter</classname>.
    This converter adds the ability to marshal and unmarshal objects to and
    from XML strings. It also uses Spring's
    <classname>SimpleMessageConverter</classname> to convert Hashtables,
    strings, and byte arrays. In order to pass information about the
    serialized type, type information is put in the message properties. The
    type information can be either the class name or an integer value
    identifying the type. In systems where the client and server are deployed
    together and are tightly coupled, sharing the class name is a convenient
    shortcut. The alternative is to register a type for a given integer value.
    The XML configuration used to configure these objects is shown
    below</para>

    <programlisting>  &lt;object name="XmlMessageConverter" type="Spring.NmsQuickStart.Common.Converters.XmlMessageConverter, Spring.NmsQuickStart.Common"&gt;
    &lt;property name="TypeMapper" ref="TypeMapper"/&gt;
  &lt;/object&gt;

  &lt;object name="TypeMapper" type="Spring.NmsQuickStart.Common.Converters.TypeMapper, Spring.NmsQuickStart.Common"&gt;
    &lt;!-- use simple configuation style --&gt;
    &lt;property name="DefaultNamespace" value="Spring.NmsQuickStart.Common.Data"/&gt;
    &lt;property name="DefaultAssemblyName" value="Spring.NmsQuickStart.Common"/&gt;
  &lt;/object&gt;</programlisting>

    <para>This configuration is common between the server and the
    client.</para>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Messaging Infrastructure</title>

    <para>The implementations of the gateway interfaces inherit from Spring's
    helper class <classname>NmsGatewaySupport</classname> in order to get easy
    access to a NmsTemplate for sending. The implementation of the
    IStockService interface is shown below</para>

    <programlisting>    public class NmsStockServiceGateway : NmsGatewaySupport, IStockService
    {
        private IDestination defaultReplyToQueue;
        
        public IDestination DefaultReplyToQueue
        {
            set { defaultReplyToQueue = value; }
        }

        public void Send(TradeRequest tradeRequest)
        {                                                        // post process message
            NmsTemplate.ConvertAndSendWithDelegate(tradeRequest, delegate(IMessage message)
                                                                     {
                                                                         message.NMSReplyTo = defaultReplyToQueue;
                                                                         message.NMSCorrelationID = new Guid().ToString();
                                                                         return message;
                                                                     });
        }        
    }</programlisting>

    <para>The use of an anonymous delegate allows makes it very easy to apply
    any post processing logic to the converted message. </para>

    <para>The object definition for the
    <classname>NmsStockServiceGateway</classname> is shown below along with
    its dependent object definitions of NmsTemplate and the
    ConnectionFactory.</para>

    <para><programlisting>  &lt;object name="StockServiceGateway" type="Spring.NmsQuickStart.Client.Gateways.NmsStockServiceGateway, Spring.NmsQuickStart.Client"&gt;
    &lt;property name="NmsTemplate"  ref="<emphasis role="bold">NmsTemplate</emphasis>"/&gt;
    &lt;property name="DefaultReplyToQueue"&gt;
      &lt;object type="Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ.Commands.ActiveMQQueue, Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ"&gt;
        &lt;constructor-arg value="APP.STOCK.JOE"/&gt;
      &lt;/object&gt;
    &lt;/property&gt;
  &lt;/object&gt;

  &lt;object name="<emphasis role="bold">NmsTemplate</emphasis>" type="Spring.Messaging.Nms.Core.NmsTemplate, Spring.Messaging.Nms"&gt;
    &lt;property name="ConnectionFactory" ref="<emphasis role="bold">ConnectionFactory</emphasis>"/&gt;
    &lt;property name="DefaultDestinationName" value="APP.STOCK.REQUEST"/&gt;
    &lt;property name="MessageConverter" ref="XmlMessageConverter"/&gt;
  &lt;/object&gt;

  &lt;object id="<emphasis role="bold">ConnectionFactory</emphasis>" type="Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ.ConnectionFactory, Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ"&gt;
    &lt;constructor-arg index="0" value="tcp://localhost:61616"/&gt;
  &lt;/object&gt;</programlisting>In this example the 'raw'
    <classname>Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ.ConnectionFactory </classname>connection
    factory was used. It would be more efficient resource wise to use Spring's
    <classname>CachingConnectionFactory</classname> wrapper class so that
    connections will not be open and closed for each message send as well as
    allowing for the caching of other intermediate NMS API objects such as
    sessions and message producers.</para>

    <para>A similar configuration is used on the server to configure the class
    <classname>Spring.NmsQuickStart.Server.Gateways.MarketDataServiceGateway
    </classname>that implements the <classname>IMarketDataService</classname>
    interface. </para>

    <para>Since the client is also a consumer of messages, on the topic
    APP.STOCK.MARKETDATA and the queue APP.STOCK.JOE (for Trader Joe!), two
    message listener containers are defined as shown below. </para>

    <programlisting>  &lt;nms:listener-container connection-factory="ConnectionFactory"&gt;
    &lt;nms:listener ref="MessageListenerAdapter" destination="APP.STOCK.JOE" /&gt;
    &lt;nms:listener ref="MessageListenerAdapter" destination="APP.STOCK.MARKETDATA" pubsub-domain="true"/&gt;
  &lt;/nms:listener-container&gt;</programlisting>

    <para>Refer to the <link linkend="messaging">messages reference
    docs</link> for all the available attributes to configure the container
    and also the section on <link
    linkend="xsd-config-body-schemas-nms">registering the NMS schema</link>
    with Spring..</para>

    <para>On the server we define a message listener container for the queue
    APP.STOCK.REQUEST but set the concurrency property to 10 so that 10
    threads will be consuming messages from the queue.</para>

    <programlisting>  &lt;nms:listener-container connection-factory="ConnectionFactory" concurrency="<emphasis
        role="bold">10</emphasis>"&gt;
    &lt;nms:listener ref="MessageListenerAdapter" destination="APP.STOCK.REQUEST" /&gt;
  &lt;/nms:listener-container&gt;</programlisting>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Running the application</title>

    <para>To run both the client and server make sure that you select
    'Multiple Startup Projects' within VS.NET. The GUI has a button to make a
    hardcoded trade request and show confirmation in a text box. A text area
    is used to display the market data. There is a 'Get Portfolio' button that
    is not implemented at the moment. A picture of the GUI after it has been
    running for a while and trade has been sent and responded to is shown
    below</para>

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    </mediaobject>

    <para></para>
  </section>
</chapter>