Question about RFA upgrading

Chris.Wang
Chris.Wang LSEG
in RFA

Hi all,

I need to assist several clients to upgrade their RMDS to TREP 3.x., and besides TREP upgrade, I also need to help them to upgrade RFA as well.

Since RMDS is EOL for a long time, so their RFA version is very old as well.

Could anyone tell me that is RFA 6 a big milestone for RFA? That's is to say, before RFA 6, the clients need to re-write their RFA program.

And where I can find documents for this RFA migration topic?

Thank you very much.

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  • pimchaya.wongrukun01
    pimchaya.wongrukun01 LSEG
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    Hello @Chris.Wang

    If the clients use RFA version older than 6, it means they use the legacy interfaces(MarketData interfaces) and the latest RFA Java version
    including this Interfaces is 7.6.1.L2 which the clients can download from RFA
    Java downloads     page. If the client cannot access the web site or download
    the package, please contact RDC administrator(rdc.administrator@thomsonreuters.com). The migration information for MarketData interfaces in the documents shipped with the RFA
    package (<package>\Legacy\Docs\index.htm). Please navigate to “Legacy
    Documentation” page and go to “API Migration” for details. For deprecated
    interfaces and replacements details, please see in “API Deprecation” under
    “Legacy Documentation” part.

    If the client uses RFA 6 or newer, please confirm which interfaces they are using; OMM interfaces or MarketData Interfaces. If it is OMM interfaces, the latest version is 8.1.0.L1 which can be downloaded from RFA
    Java downloads     page. The migration information is in the document shipped with
    the RFA package (<package>\Docs\RFAJ_Portal.html). Please
    click “RFA Java Web Documentation” then navigate to “Helpful Hints” page
    in “Documentation Portal” and go to “API Migration” for details. For deprecated interfaces and replacements details, please see
    in “Schedule of Deprecated Interfaces” under “Helpful Hints” part.

    To upgrade to RFA7.6 or 8.1, the clients should not need to re-write the whole application, just modify some source code according to the migration information which I mentioned above.

    For the supported RFA versions, TREP versions, please refer to API Compatibility Matrix

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  • chris.xiao
    chris.xiao Explorer

    Hi Pimchaya, I am new to RFA. The mirgration description is scaterred. It will be appreciated if you can provide a check list like steps of migration from 7.2.1 to 8.1.0, and completed with example project of old and new.

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