QuoteLink is the common platform that unifies the different components by classifying them and creating abstraction layers for each class.
Schematic view:
| EXCEL instances | VB.6 Apps | COM apps | VB.NET Apps | c# Apps | Python Apps(IronPython) | VSTO Applications | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| RTD Interfaces | COM | .NET Framework 2.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| QuoteLink platform framework | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| feed adapter 1 | feed2 adapter 2 | … | … | gateway adapter 1 | … | … | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Feeds are either based in direct connections to external servers or connections to data provider applications running on the client machine (for instance TWS interactive brokers). A gateway adapter connects to other application that provides more feeds.
This structure may use several and feeds an applications maybe in different machines.