Artefaktur Component Development Kit

This release improves overall performance, especially with the
execution of CfgScript scripts. Improvements and bugfixes
were made in string handling, localization, threading,
configuration, and build. Support for datagram sockets and
SSL streams including HTTPS URLs is added. A JDBC-like
desktop database based on SQLite and a remote method
invocation similar to RMI are introduced in this release. ACDK
now supports GCC 4.0, VC 8 (2005), and current releases of
wxWidgets and OpenSSL.

acdk_xml can now validate XML files, and supports
namespaces, DOM model, and xpath expressions. ACDK
literals support Unicode escape sequences. New
ports were implemented for Intel Solaris 9 and 10,
VC 8, GCC 3.4, and the new thread model of Linux.
Various bugs have been fixed in the modules
acdk_core, acdk_net, CfgScript, acdk_xml,
acdk_sql_odbc, and acdk_wx.

With acdk_wx, platform-independent GUIs can be written in C++ or CfgScript. The CfgScript language (a Java/JavaScript-like language) is extended with lambda expressions and short circuit logical evaluation. To execute ACDK unit tests, a graphical application is available. Various bugs have been fixed, and the source has been made compatible with GCC 3.4 and 2.9x.

This release introduces a new Java-like scripting language
with bindings to ACDK C++, COM, CORBA, and other scripting
languages. A template version of the collection framework was
implemented, memory management enhanced, and a test and
logging framework was implemented. An alpha version of
wxWindows/wxWidgets binding is available for ACDK C++
and the new script language. The SQL package was made to
work with SQL 2000 Server. Countless bugs were fixed, and
many detail improvements were made in all packages.

Integrated support of Unicode strings, including standard 7 and 8 bit encodings. Dynamic Method Invocation database and interfaces are redesigned. New acdkmake builds ACDK on multiple platforms. Bugs are fixed in all packages.