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| Jan 13, 2003 |
Better late than never! OPP 0.3 development is now open.
Version 0.3 was originally intended to be an interim release that implemented a new
public interface that would enable the addition of substantial new functionality in future releases. However,
due largely to outside events that have delayed implementation but allowed high level design to proceed; the original
schedule has been revised and the feature set for 0.3 has been extended.
Version 0.3 features a new public interface with a defined standard; transparent persistence; a redesigned and
optimized embedded object database; a vastly improved I/O, socket and internet
architecturel; improved thread support and many other enhancements.
Much work remains to complete 0.3 for release. However; thanks to an improved test suite, it already
exceeds 0.2.5 in stability in many ways. Read the development page for more information;
including important caveats to 0.3.
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| Oct 14, 2000 |
OPP 0.2.5 is released: opp-0.2.5.tar.gz (~437K). We haven't had enough time to work on version 0.3, so it is lagging terribly. This release
fixes some bugs in OPP 0.2 and includes some new features that were intended for 0.3. It's been pretty well tested, but
some last minute changes also made it in so there may be bugs lurking.
See CHANGES for a summary of changes made to each version of OPP.
In 0.2.5:
- HTML parser that can interpret HTML as a human reader can, understanding tables, fonts and so on. It can also
"fix" broken HTML. This is a proof of concept implementation, with better
and more compliant versions to come.
- Enhanced thread support including RecursiveMutex, SpinLock, PCQueue (template message queue) and ThreadPool.
- Internet address classes (InetAddress, InetHost, InetPort, URL).
- Client and server side support for HTTP Cookies.
- Abstracted URL retrieval incorporating the HTTP class along with the new File and FTP classes.
- Name and abbreviation matching algorithm.
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The following schedule is obsolete. A new one will be posted in the near future.
| Product | Version | Anticipated
Release | Milestones
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| PathWays | | Q3 2002 | Open Development Release
| | OPP | 0.3 | Q3 2002 | Complete Rearchitecture
| | OPP | 0.4 | Q2 2003 | Strings, JNI, ACID Transactions
| | OPP | 1.0 | Q2 2003 | Portability, Refinements
| | OPP | 1.1 | Q3 2003 | Bug Fixes
| | PathWays | 1.0 | Q4 2003 | IDL Compiler, native messaging infrastructure
| | OPP | 2.0 | 2004 | Replicated collections, Remote message queues, CORBA/RMI, Internationalization
| | PathWays | 2.0 | 2004 | Customer driven enhancements
| | OPP | 3.0 | 2005 | Database access framework, GUI support
| | Enterprise PathWays | 1.0 | 2005 | Classified
| | OPP | 4.0 | 2006 | Classified |
| Enterprise PathWays | 2.0 | 2006 | Classified |
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Status |
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Status from January 13, 2003
OPP 0.3 is now publicly available for development purposes. The Template, Database, IO and System packages have been most
thoroughly tested. The Base, Net and Thread packages has been reasonably well tested. Utility, Collection, Parser and Document
have not yet been tested. Utility and Parser shouldn't have a lot of bugs as they have not been changed too much. Collection and
Document are likely to not work. Not all functionality scheduled for OPP 0.3 has been completed yet. See the
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| Jan 30, 2000 |
Work on OPP has been delayed because of other work commitments.
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| Jul 18, 1999 |
New look and content for the website.
I've decided to add transparent persistent storage to the collection classes for version 0.3. As a result, the 0.3
release date is going to be pushed back a couple of weeks. It's the right time to add this feature, since
I was already rewriting all the collection classes for allocators and iterators.
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| Jun 23, 1999 |
Features coming in OPP 0.3:
- Portable to multiple UNIX platforms (at least Linux and Solaris).
- HTML parser that can interpret HTML as a human reader can, understanding tables, fonts and so on. It can also
"fix" broken HTML. Version 0.3 should be considered a proof of concept implementation, with better
and more compliant versions to come.
- Enhanced thread support including RecursiveMutex, SpinLock, PCQueue (template message queue) and ThreadPool.
- Internet address classes (InetAddress, InetHost, InetPort, URL).
- Client and server side support for HTTP Cookies.
- Java and Standard C++ Library style interfaces to OPP classes.
- Object database performance enhancements.
- Iterator and allocator support in OPP collection classes.
- New template collections for Vectors and Heaps.
- Documentation
- Standardized interface (common naming conventions, standard methods for common functionality, etc.)
- May include rearchitected Strings with enhanced functionality and usability.
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| Mar 13, 1999 |
OPP Version 0.2 is now available.
Brave souls willing to risk vile bugs, hideous misfeatures and an architecture and interface that may change daily can download
opp-0.2.tar.gz (~242K). OPP Version 0.2 requires Linux and GNU make and
is known to work with egcs version 2.91.60 (aka 2.1.1). It is believed that OPP requires a recent version of egcs in order to
compile (egcs 1.0.3 is known to have bugs that prevent OPP from compiling and/or working correctly).
Version 0.2 adds many bug fixes, enhanced parsing, HTTP and EMail. Read CHANGES for the complete set of changes.
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| Jan 3, 1999 |
OPP Version 0.1a is now available.
Version 0.1a is mostly a bug fix release of OPP version 0.1. Besides bug fixes, version 0.1a includes a class for date and time
parsing. Read CHANGES for the complete set of changes.
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| Dec 30, 1998 |
Announcing the first public release of OPP. OPP Version 0.1 has template and object rooted collection classes and a variety of string, I/O, network and thread classes.
OPP aims to provide:
- An object oriented framework for cross-platform application
development.
- The functionality found in the Rogue Wave class libraries;
especially Tools.h++, Threads.h++ and the network classes now part of
Net.h++
- An interface familiar to Java programmers and suitable for easy
porting of Java code to C++.
- A multithreaded embedded Object Database and corresponding
database server.
- An object oriented container framework. This functionality
overlaps with the capabilities of the standard C++ library, but
follows a decidedly different philosophy.
The 0.1 release of OPP fails to meet any of these
goals in a meaningful way. It does work, and Odin Properties is
using it to develop the next generation of Web Portal software, as
used by the Index of Alternative Operating Systems.
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Questions and Comments: opp@odin-consulting.com
Development Mailing List: listserver@odin-consulting.com
Primary Maintainer: Joel Peterson
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