‘Guilty as charged’ is the verdict. I owe an apology to the audience for selling vapourware. I got stuck with Data, RecordSet, ODBC connector & co, so the servlet engine got pushed on the back burner for the ump-th time. But I’m getting ready to give it a shot and push it out the door […]
Wes Peters has created and will be maintaining the FreeBSD Port of POCO. Thank you, Wes! Now that we have a FreeBSD Port, but still no Linux packages: any volunteers who want to maintain RPMs or dpkgs for POCO? Your help is appreciated!
Hi all, just a quick note to keep you informed what’s going on in the Poco World and what will be included in the next Poco beta: A feature that quite some people asked for are static builds. And thanks to Paschal we have that now (for VS7.1, I’m currently doing VS8.0) I spent a […]
A first beta of the upcoming Poco 1.3 release is available for download. Release Notes: ========================== – added HashMap, HashSet classes – added Poco::Tuple – added AbstractCache::getAllKeys(), improved performance of the get operation – fixed AbstractCache::size() to do cache replacement before returning the size – added additional match() method to RegularExpression and documented the fact […]
PocoDoc, the documentation generator used by POCO, can now be found in the SVN sandbox. A short HowTo that explains how to build and run PocoDoc can be found in the Wiki.
Neal Gafter laments about generics in Java. It is interesting to read various opinions on Java “generics” ranging from “they spoiled the language”, to “let’s (re)do it right”. Sigh. Someone please send Java “visionaries” back to future .
POCO release 1.2.5 is available for download. Changes in detail: Improved LoggingConfigurator: channel creation and configuration is now a two-step process. This means that the previous problems with PropertyFileConfiguration and IniFileConfiguration when referencing other channels are solved. improved options handling: better handling of (non) ambiguities. If both an option named “help” and one named “helper” […]
ODBC DataConnector is in the Subversion repository. The code is tested and runs correctly on Windows XP Pro with Oracle ODBC driver ver 10.02.00.01. It is an early snapshot with some wrinkles left to iron out so changes are likely to be seen in the near future. Comments and/or contributions are more than welcome. Alex
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.
There is a new interview with Scott Meyers available on his site. Scott talks about language future, upcoming standard etc. I found it surprising that he does not care much about concepts. I am from the “excited” crowd.