The Platinum C++ Framework

Core Library

• Basic Types

  • Fixed Size Integers
  • Dates and Times
  • The Any Class

• Allocators

  • The Allocator Interface
  • Pool Allocation
  • Page Allocation

• Signals and Delegates

  • Signals
  • Delegates

• Text Processing

  • Character Encodings
  • Characters and Strings
  • Text Streams and Codecs
  • Regular Expressions
  • Base-64 Encoding

• Serialization

  • Serialization of Value Types
  • Serialization of Pointers
  • Serialization of Containers

• Utilities

  • String Conversions
  • Numeric Conversions
  • Byte Order Conversion
  • Command Line Arguments
  • Application Settings
  • Source Information
  • Type Information

System Programming

• File System Access

  • File Information
  • Directory Contents
  • File I/O

• Concurrency

• Logging

  • Goals and Approach
  • Logger Configuration
  • Logging From Programs

• Dynamic Libraries and Plugins

  • Loading Libraries
  • Writing Plugins
  • Loading Plugins

HTTP Clients and Servers

• HTTP Clients

  • Making HTTP Requests
  • Request Pipelining
  • Chunked Encoding
  • Secure Connections
  • Authentication

• HTTP Server and Services

  • Implementing Services
  • Servlets and Request Dispatch
  • Secure Connections
  • Authorization

Secure Communication

• Certificate Management
• Context Initialization
• Opening a Connection
• Reading and Writing Data
• Connection Shutdown

XML-RPC Communication

• XML-RPC Services
• Asynchronous XML-RPC Service Procedures
• XML-RPC Clients
• Protocol Details

Unit Testing

• A Simple Test Case
• Build System Integration
• Data Driven Testing
• Protocol Driven Testing
• Running Tests