Re: [boost] ANN: POCO - C++ Portable Components

From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-21 18:21:09

My colleague just showed me a very concise example of how he created a
service that can be registered with Windows. The same code works for
Unix as well.

I don't think there are any boost libraries that can do this yet.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Cliff Green
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 3:10 PM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] ANN: POCO - C++ Portable Components
> 
> I've only quickly scanned the POCO web page, but it 
> appears that there is quite a bit of overlap with Boost 
> (and will be even more overlap in the future). In 
> particular:
> 
> - Threading (existing in Boost, with upcoming 
> enhancements)
> - Network programming (Asio, in upcoming release)
> - Streams, Filesystem (FS and Iostreams already in Boost)
> - Shared libraries, loading (talked about but not in 
> Boost)
> - Logging, error reporting (submitted but rejected, 
> promised for future Boost review)
> - Security (not sure if any overlap with Boost)
> - XML parsing (talked about, urgently needed in Boost, 
> IMO)
> - Configuration file, options handling (Program Options 
> already in Boost, Property Tree in future release)
> 
> It might be interesting to compare interfaces, 
> functionality, and semantics, however. Or see if parts of 
> the POCO components should be reworked as needed and 
> submitted for review to be part of Boost.
> 
> ACE is a very mature, capable, and well-tested set of 
> libraries (despite the initial appearance of some web 
> pages). It has some real advantages (and some 
> disadvantages, mostly dealing with it's age, since it's 
> vintage is close to 15 years). I and others have made 
> comments and given short overviews of ACE in previous 
> Boost postings, so a search through the Boost archives 
> would help. ACE and Boost are quite different in 
> interfaces and approach, so there's not much (if any) mix 
> and match between the two (parallel co-existence works 
> just fine, as I can attest to from experience).
> 
> Cliff
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