POCO C++ Libraries Blog

News and discussion for the POCO Community


POCO 1.2.5. Released

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

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


Help Us Improve The POCO Community!

Dear POCO User, we are happy that you have chosen POCO as one of your favorite C++ development frameworks. Here we want to thank you that you trust in us. After several months of community life it is now time to take the next step! We want to greatly improve the POCO Community Website within […]


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.


Die Zukunft von C++ by Scott Meyers

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.


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 […]