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ETP S-Box
The FIX API server
The only tool you will ever need to manage your FIX API specifications.

ETP S-Box is a central repository to create, browse, manage, share, and export API specifications for FIX and non-FIX protocols.

Financial institutions need to manage many types of message specifications. For example, FIX message specifications for different trading venues, binary protocol specification for exchanges they connect to, and FIX API specifications for individual clients. ETP S-Box provides a centralized repository that makes it easy to store and share message specifications used across the company.

Users can browse a list of all specification available and drill down into the definition of messages and fields. They can edit, share, and export to PDF, Excel, and other formats. ETP S-Box also offers a REST API to import message specifications programmatically into other systems, like FIX engines and exchange line handlers.

ETP S-Box is a must-have for anyone wanting to centralize management of FIX and non-FIX (including proprietary) message protocols specifications to avoid duplication and save time.

find out more about how etp S-box works

Dictionary Browser & Editor

Visually browse, search, and edit FIX API dictionaries.
A powerful central repository for teams across the enterprise to store and manage the rules of engagements of their financial APIs. Whether your protocols are based on FIX or not, ETP S-Box provides you with a powerful environment to build and manage API specification based on modern standards.
INSPECT, CREATE, AND EDIT FIX API ELEMENTS VISUALLY.
With a powerful visual editor to inspect FIX elements like tags, datasets, components, and messages, the dictionary editor in ETP S-Box lowers the barrier to adopt FIX API design practices by removing the complexities of XML and of maintaining model consistency. Support for familiar drag & drop functionality and information panels aid the editing of FIX dictionaries.
CREATE HIERARCHICAL SCENARIOS OF FIX ELEMENTS.
ETP S-Box introduces Selective API Inheritance technology (SAI) to allow inheritance between FIX dictionary elements to provide new business dimension to FIX APIs. API elements can be classified for example by workflow (pre-trade, post-trade, etc.), by asset class (equities, derivatives), or any other business dimension.
CATALOG OF DICTIONARY ELEMENTS TO BE USED ACROSS SPECIFICATIONS.
With a powerful global elements catalog to collect firm-wide financial objects in one repository, ETP S-Box lets teams from different business silos build their APIs from a common catalog, achieving object reusability and model consistency across the enterprise, with access rights and private views.
MANAGE, COMPARE, AND SHARE DICTIONARY VERSIONS.
ETP S-Box makes it easy to maintain and collaborate on multiple versions of the same API, including versioning of images, tables, and documents associated with each version of the specifications.
EXPORT DICTIONARIES TO FIX ORCHESTRA, QUICKFIX, FIXML, AND OTHERS.
ETP S-Box’s conversion technology meets the needs of every team. Technology teams can export dictionaries in multiple machine-readable XML formats, while product teams and onboarding teams can provide specifications to their clients in a familiar PDF format. ETP S-Box can also export in web format, fully while-labelled, to integrate rules of engagements within your company’s website.
IMPORT SPECIFICATIONS FROM FIX ORCHESTRA, QUICKFIX, UNIFIED, OR LOGS.
Regardless of which format you use for your FIX dictionaries, ETP S-Box accepts almost any format to generate your FIX XML dictionaries quickly. From QuickFIX XML to FIX Unified Repository XML, it will parse even your log files to get you started in not time. ETP S-Box is the simplest solution to adopt the new SAI API paradigm to manage protocol specifications and FIX APIs.
REST API FOR MACHINE-READABLE FIX SPECIFICATIONS, AND CI/CD INTEGRATION.
Continuous integration and continuous delivery are important within modern enterprise environments. DevOps teams will be glad to know that they can easily integrate ETP S-Box within their pipelines. A versatile REST API allows retrieving machine-readable API specification for direct use by trading systems, software build servers, and to provide access to many other system functions.

Document Editor

RICH markdown editor for FIX specifications, with FIX dictionary integration to keep them up to date.
For stock exchanges and brokers that produce PDF versions of their API specifications, ETP S-Box provides them with the most innovative document editor in the industry, capable of producing specification documents that are always-up-date to the latest FIX dictionary.
REFERENCES AND PREVIEW FIX API ELEMENTS IN THE EDITOR.
Do you know the biggest problem faced by firms publishing FIX specification? Maintaining their PDF documents in sync with the FIX dictionary. All fields, enumerations, components, groups, and messages in the PDF document must match exactly the source FIX dictionary. An almost-impossible tax for any sizeable FIX specification. ETP S-Box solves this problem by supporting references to the FIX dictionary directly into the specification’s document editor, with a convenient WYSIWYG panel to inspect results in real-time.
ADD PLANTUML DIAGRAMS, IMAGES, TABLES, LINKS, AND MORE.
ETP S-Box features don’t stop with its innovative dictionary references, it also supports the integration of PlanUML diagrams into specification documents, to produce beautiful sequence diagrams that describe the most complex trading workflows. Plus, support for images, tables, document previews, and much more; all within the industry’s most sophisticated API Specification editor.
PUBLISH TO PDF AND HTML WITH CUSTOM "LOOK & FEEL" TEMPLATES.
Why not show your great new results to your clients? Create custom look & feel templates to match your company’s corporate identity and style your PDF documents. Even better, why not publish them in web format and integrate them within your company website, for that modern approach to API management?

Additional Features

  • Visual diff and merge and collaborative reviewing of changes across specification versions.
  • Configurable profiles to export different variants of the same specification in configurable ways.
  • Browser for read-only specifications received from counterparties (for specification takers).
  • Log-files parser and visual display of message structures from log files.
  • Integrated with Esprow’s ETP Studio and ETP C-Box for automated testing and onboarding.
  • Enterprise features like groups, permission, single-sign-on, and audit trails.
  • Cloud and on-premises deployment.
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