The transport has been designed so that it is possible to configure the QuickFIX engine via the IAF configuration file by prepending a transport property with “QuickFIX”. For example, the following transport property sets the target host of its embedded QuickFIX engine:

Any QuickFIX property can be set in this way, a full list of which along with the rules for their use can be found at http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/configuration.html.