POCO C++ Libraries Blog

A fresh Bjarne Stroustrup’s interview .

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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 […]

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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.

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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 .

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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” […]

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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

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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.

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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.

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