The Open Financial Market Platform (OFMP)

The goal of the Open Financial Market Platform (OFMP) is to extend the Eclipse Platform to create an open-source platform for interoperable, extensible financial market systems based on Equinox, Eclipse's OSGi framework. OFMP targets on tools and components for middle-office Financial Markets applications for the banking industry. OFMP will open-source field-tested components from a bank's production environment connecting to common back-office and front-office systems.

Figure 1: Middle Office Financial Market Platform at Kaupthing Bank

The Open Financial Market Platform will develop infrastructure, tools, components, and services to support development of both client and server applications. Client development will be based on Eclipse RCP and server components will be based on Equinox OSGi together with core Eclipse concepts such as plug-in based extensibility.

OFMP is currently proposed as a open source project under the Eclipse Technology Project (see the proposal here).

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