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  • POCO at C++ Now

    On Thursday, May 16 2013, Alex will give two POCO-related presentations at the C++ Now conference in Aspen, Colorado: "Dynamic C++" and "Look Ma, “update DB to HTML5 using C++”, no hands!". See the blog for more information.
  • Slides for Dynamic C++ at ACCU 2013

    Alex gave his talk "Dynamic C++" at ACCU 2013 in Bristol on Thursday, April 11. The slides are available on SlideShare.
  • Stable Release 1.4.6 Available

    This release brings some bugfixes and minor enhancements. See the CHANGELOG for the details. Available on the download page.
  • Development Release 1.5.1 Available

    Development release 1.5.1 is a major step towards the next stable 1.6.0 release planned for this spring. See the CHANGELOG for what's changed. Available on the download page.
  • Applied Informatics C++ Libraries and Tools Release 2013.1

    The C++ Libraries and Tools from Applied Informatics are based on the POCO C++ Libraries and add additional features such as Remoting for RPC/IPC and SOAP/WSDL web services, Open Service Platform for building modular, extensible applications, DNSSD/Zeroconf, Universal Plug and Play, Fast Infoset processing or secure remote access to smart devices. Release 2013.1 is a maintenance release containing bug fixes and minor improvements, based on POCO release 1.4.6.
    A free evaluation version is available for download.
What Are Developers Saying About It?
  • "OSP along with POCO provided us the desired flexibility we needed in our solution. [...] We could reduce our project turnaround time by 50 %."
    Suvajit Sengupta, Lumiplan
  • "The breadth of the POCO libraries is astounding and I doubt we actually fully appreciate how much work the libraries saved us."
    Chris Steinbeck, Thales Australia
  • "We have been using the POCO toolkit in our latest generation high speed genome sequencer. I can't tell you how pleased I am with the work you've been doing. Thank you for giving me my weekends back!"
    Jesse Keller, 454 Life Sciences
  • "We're using POCO in a product we're developing, and we're extremely pleased with it. It's one of the richest and best written libraries that I've encountered, and its portability saved us a ton of work."
    Loris Degioanni, Riverbed
  • "If you work in C++ and didn't hear about POCO, you are missing out on one of the most outstanding and important C++ libraries in years."
    Eran Hammer-Lahav
  • "The richness of the content, the clarity of the code, and the quality of the documentation prompted us to use POCO as one of our foundational 3rd-party libraries."
    Sorin Voicu-Comendant, T-System
  • "I just wanted to say that I am hugely impressed by the breadth of functionality offered by POCO and the overall excellent quality of the implementation code, samples, and documentation. It has been a real pleasure developing my application."
    Caleb Epstein
  • "This library is quite refreshing and a joy to use. Laid out very well, the documentation is consistent as the code base and functional in all the ways that C++ traditionally lacks. Many thanks go out to all the contributors of this library."
    Chris Johnson
  • "C++ now has batteries included."
    Jeremy Sandell

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Who Is Using POCO? Companies like 454 Life Sciences, HP, Lumiplan, Riverbed, Schneider Electric, Thales and Voltwerk Electronics; open source projects like GLUEscript, MITK, openFrameworks, Open Game Engine and Ogre.
Who Is Behind It? The POCO C++ Libraries were created by Günter Obiltschnig in 2004 and have since been extended by enthusiastic C++ developers from all over the world. Funding is provided by Applied Informatics and sponsors.
Applied Informatics - Founding Sponsor   Schneider Electric Buildings - Silver Sponsor

The POCO C++ Libraries are released under the Boost Software License.
Copyright © 2006-2013 by Applied Informatics Software Engineering GmbH (Imprint).