webMethods FIX Module allows you to exchange messages with your trading partners in standard FIX message format. FIX Module interfaces with the FIX engine, the gateway through which all FIX messages pass.

For incoming FIX messages sent from your partners, FIX Module receives the message from the FIX engine and, using Trading Networks, processes the message according to your configurations. You can customize how a message is processed by assigning a Trading Networks processing rule to perform a specific action on the message, such as routing the message to a system or sending an e-mail alert. Also, you can create a mapping service that defines data transformations to perform, such as allowing an internal system that uses a non-FIX format to use the message data.

FIX Module also processes outbound messages. When FIX Module receives messages from an internal system, it converts the messages into FIX standard message format, and then forwards the messages to the FIX engine, which sends the messages to your business partner.

FIX Module uses IS document types to determine how to process an inbound or outbound message, matching a message to a specific pre-defined format and then applying any configurations assigned to that IS document type. For more information about IS document types, see IS Document Types.

For a list of the FIX message versions that FIX Module supports, see webMethods eStandards Modules System Requirements , available in the webMethods area of the Software AG Documentation Web site.