POCO C++ Libraries Blog

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POCO Netconf: Add automatic configuration capabilities to your devices.

Based on Poco – the open source network-centric, cross-platform C++ library – Applied Informatics Software Engineering GmbH, the expert to connect embedded systems with enterprise IT infrastructure, has currently released a C++ library for XML based Device Management, which implements the NetConf Standard. The NETCONF protocol defines a simple mechanism to manage and configure a […]


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 […]


C++ is the answer. What is the question?

It does not cease to amaze me how large corporate marketing machines sucesfully create false perceptions. I mean, everyone knows Java is the language skill de jour. At least Sun, IBM and Oracle would like you to believe so. Or, was it C#? No need to spell out who wants you to believe that ;-). […]


POCO Remoting: Transform your existing C++ Code to a Service oriented Architecture in minutes

Based on POCO – the open source network-centric, cross-platform C++ library – Applied Informatics Software Engineering GmbH, the expert to connect embedded systems with enterprise IT infrastructure, offers a Remoting Package, which is non intrusive: no need to extend interfaces or change already existing code so that it can run remotely simple: take your C++ […]


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 […]


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. […]