POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


Automotive Discovers C++

The latest Elektroniknet newsletter points to an article about using C++ in automotive (body electronics) software development (in German only). It seems that BMW is going in this direction, as the article was written by three developers from the BMW Car IT group. The article is fairly good at addressing the typical prejudices (too slow, […]


C++ Generic Coding vs. Java Frameworks

Interesting article by Dan Clarke in Reg Developer. Dan asks why there are so many things that C++ developers should do by hand, while Java developers have lots of frameworks available. Hopefully, with POCO as a solid foundation, we’ll soon see a lot more useful frameworks in C++, also.


POCO 1.2.4 Released

POCO release 1.2.4 is available for download. This release contains mostly bugfixes for namespace handling in the XML library. Changes in detail: – some code beautifying and improvements to comments – DOMParser now automatically sets FEATURE_NAMESPACE_PREFIXES – fixed SF #1567051: DOMBuilder/DOMParser/NamespaceStrategy bug – fixed SF #1567364: POCO_APP_MAIN – added Document::getElementById() (two-argument) and getElementByIdNS() – added […]


Introducing POCO Data

The Data library is POCOs new database abstraction layer. It features a generic SQL data access framework which defines interfaces for DataConnectors. A DataConnector implements the plumbing between Data and an actual database API (e.g., ODBC, OCI, etc.) POCO Data heavily builds on ideas borrowed from SOCI, another excellent database abstraction library under the Boost […]


POCO 1.2.3 Released

POCO 1.2.3 has been released today. Changes since 1.2.2: – configure script now checks if (auto)selected configuration is supported – fixed SF #1552904: NamedEvent bug? – fixed SF #1552787: POCO not handling EINTR – fixed SF #1552846: Random::~Random uses scalar delete – fixed SF #1552987: TLSSlot should explicitly default-construct _value – IPAddress no longer accepts […]


First Worldwide POCO Community Convention

September 2 was the date of the first “wordwide” POCO Community Convention when I met with Alex in Lovran, near Rijeka in Croatia. Alex lived in that area for 30 years before he moved to the USA, and came back for two weeks to visit his parents. Since at the same time I spent my […]


POCO 1.2.2 Released

POCO 1.2.2 has been released today. This is a bugfix release only. See the CHANGELOG for the list of fixes. (And for those of you overwhelmed by the high number of releases in the last days: there won’t be any new releases at least for the next two weeks, as I am starting my vacation […]


POCO 1.2 Released

POCO 1.2 has been released today. This release contains major improvements and new features. Summary of changes (please see CHANGELOG for details): namespaces and header locations have changed improvements to command line options handling improvements to HTTP server and client classes support for raw sockets and ICMP improvements to DateTime, bugfixes in Timezone improvements to […]


The Sandbox is Now Open

I have created a sandbox directory in the SVN repository for POCO. Currently, two libraries live it in, both contributions by Alex: Web and IO.


New 1.2 Snapshot Available

A new snapshot release of 1.2 (poco-1.2-20060816) is available from SourceForge. This release is now feature complete and contains the proposed changes to namespaces and header file locations. If no severe issues will show up, the official 1.2 release will be available next week. The changelog is here. And the updated reference documentation is here. […]