List of Figures

1. Configuration choices
2. Unpacking the sources
3. The shim usage message, after typing ./shim
4. Key-value names and defaults
5. A possible service entry for the IB tws in /etc/services
6. The default values for the shimrc file
7. An init option connect dialogue
8. Changing my.cnf
9. Starting and stopping the shim
10. Running the primary test script
11. Screen shot of history, news, account data and contract data queries
12. Screen shot of market and market depth data, ending with shim exit
13. The mode message
14. Resource limits to the IB tws
15. The help message for options
16. The Command Function Help Text
17. The Command Notation Help Text
18. Factory wrappers
19. Database table foreign key dependencies
20. Commands from the create.sql script
21. A hypothetical type derivation hierarchy
22. The top of the type symbol hierarchy
23. The type hierarchy
24. Objects
25. Terms
26. Relational tables
27. Records
28. Commands
29. Requests
30. Messages
31. Error messages
32. Warnings
33. Sibling atoms
34. Stream variants
35. IO channel abstraction
36. Mapper hierarchy
37. Interface and private methods of the Clock
38. Tip of shim call graph
39. The graph of singletons
40. Modes
41. Tasks
42. States
43. States
44. Cursor states during event parsing
45. Shim process timer states
46. Subscription retry states
47. Tick Ids
48. Output from the make process
49. Pools
50. Buffer variants
51. Vector implementation
52. Queue implementation
53. Stack implementation
54. Set maps
55. Map inheritance
56. Domain maps