Session Initiator Fails with "Connection failed: Failed to get the session."

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I've been trying to port a pojo application from QuickFix-JNI to QuickFixJ 1.0.x, however, my (initiator) session never connects, instead failing with "Connection failed: Failed to get the session."

I haven't seen anything about this in the mail-archives, the closest thing being the issue of having to delete the quickfix fixmsg log files to avoid an EOFException, which I had already encountered.

– as far as I can tell "Failed to get session." is a MINA IOException message, wrapped in "ConnectionFailed: " when caught by IoSessionInitiator.connect(), however I am not familiar enough with MINA for that to help me much – I would have guessed that the connection was never even being attempted, but an ethereal capture reveals the connection is at least initiated, showing

TEST1 -> TEST2 : SYN
TEST2 -> TEST1 : SYN,ACK
TEST1 -> TEST2 : ACK

I tried using both the SocketInitiator and ThreadedSocketInitiator classes, to no effect
I also tried upgrading to mina-core-0.9.4.jar, in the blind hope that it might fix something, but it didn't.
Tried downgrading QuickfixJ to 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2

below is the code being called, along with the log output (which includes the session settings), any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,

kevin ( [email protected] )
class FIXProxy extends Proxy implements quickfix.Application
{
public static void startupFix()
{
try
{
Log.dbg("ENTER startupFix");
instance = new FIXProxy();

Log.info(" FixProxy instantiated.");

SessionSettings settings = new SessionSettings(new FileInputStream(instance.fixCfgFile));
MessageStoreFactory storeFactory = new FileStoreFactory(settings);
LogFactory logFactory = new SLF4JLogFactory(settings);
MessageFactory messageFactory = new DefaultMessageFactory();

Log.info("SETTINGS: [DEFAULT]");
Properties dprop = settings.getDefaultProperties();
Enumeration de = dprop.keys();
while( de.hasMoreElements() )

{ String key=(String)de.nextElement(); String val = (String)dprop.get(key); Log.info(" " + key + " = " + val); }

SessionID sid = new SessionID("FIX.4.0","TEST1","TEST2");
Log.info("SETTINGS: ["+sid.toString()+"]");
Properties prop = settings.getSessionProperties(sid);
Enumeration en = prop.keys();
while( en.hasMoreElements() )

{ String key = (String)en.nextElement(); String val = prop.getProperty(key); Log.info(" " + key + " = " + val); }

instance.start();
Log.info(" FixProxy started");

try

{ initiator = new SocketInitiator(instance,storeFactory,settings, logFactory,messageFactory); }

catch(Exception e)

{e.printStackTrace();return;}

Log.info(" SocketInitiator instantiated.");
try

{ initiator.start(); }

catch(Exception e2)

{e2.printStackTrace();return;}

Log.info(" SocketInitiator started.");
}
catch(Exception ex)

{ Log.err(ex.getMessage()); ex.printStackTrace(); }

finally

{ Log.dbg("LEAVE startupFix"); }

}

2006/08/29 19:34:05 | Init session: FIX.4.0:TEST1->TEST2
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | SETTINGS: [DEFAULT]
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | ConnectionType = initiator
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | LogonTimeout = 30
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | BeginString = FIX.4.0
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | ValidateFieldsOutOfOrder = Y
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | ReconnectInterval = 30
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | HeartBtInt = 60
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | FileStorePath = D:/Logs/FixStore
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | UseDataDictionary = N
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | FileLogPath = D:/Logs/FixMsgs
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | SETTINGS: [FIX.4.0:TEST1->TEST2]
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | EndTime = 23:59:00
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | StartTime = 00:01:00
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | TargetCompID = TEST2
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | SocketConnectPort = 700
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | SenderCompID = TEST1
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | SocketConnectHost = 127.0.0.1
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | FixProxy started
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | FIXProxy Transitions FROM STATE_INITIAL TO STATE_STARTING
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | ENTER: STATE_STARTING
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | FIXProxy Transitions FROM STATE_STARTING TO STATE_RUNNING
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | ENTER: STATE_RUNNING
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | Aug 29, 2006 7:34:05 PM quickfix.SLF4JLog log
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | FIX.4.0:TEST1->TEST2: Session FIX.4.0:TEST1->TEST2 schedule is daily, 00:01:00 UTC - 23:59:00 UTC
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | FixEngine.onCreate FIX.4.0:TEST1->TEST2
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | Aug 29, 2006 7:34:05 PM quickfix.SLF4JLog log
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | FIX.4.0:TEST1->TEST2: Created session: FIX.4.0:TEST1->TEST2
2006/08/29 19:34:05 | SocketInitiator instantiated.
2006/08/29 19:35:05 | Aug 29, 2006 7:35:05 PM quickfix.SLF4JLog log
2006/08/29 19:35:05 | FIX.4.0:TEST1->TEST2: Connection failed: Failed to get the session.
2006/08/29 19:35:05 | SocketInitiator started.
2006/08/29 19:35:05 | DEBUG: LEAVE startupFix