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Currently I'm working on a new version of ACDK.
Please look at http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=5800&group_id=15364
for a list of changes.

You can receive a snapshot via CVS, checking out the tagged version "acdk-5-a2-2006-03-08"

For example:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/acdk co -r 'acdk-5-a2-2006-03-08' -P acdk

Please refer to http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=15364 for more details.... read more

This release improves overall performance of ACDK, especially
the execution of CfgScript scripts. Improvements and bug
fixes where 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, OpenSSL.
For more details about changes in this release, please refer to:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=5800&group_id=15364

acdk_xml can now validate xml files, supports namespaces, DOM model and xpath expressions. ACDK literals supports unicode escape sequences. New ports for intel Solaris 9 and 10, VC 8, GC 3.4 and new thread modell of Linux are implemented. The new release also introduces a GUI Class and Object Viewer Also fixed various bugs in the modules acdk_core, acdk_net, CfgScript, acdk_xml, acdk_sql_odbc and acdk_wx. ... read more

A new snapshot is available which fixes compile bugs of acdk_wx and provides project files for C++BuilderX.
See also: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=5800&group_id=15364

A new version of ACDK is available:
Please refer to http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=5800&group_id=15364 for changes

A new version of ACDK is available:
Please refer to http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=5800&group_id=15364 for changes

After one year I release a new version of ACDK.
Plaese refer to https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=5800&group_id=15364 for changes.

A new snapshot of the ACDK sources is available:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/acdk/acdk-2003-05-05_23-49-23.tgz?download

For more details please refer to:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=5800&group_id=15364

A new snapshot 3.01.0 of the ACDK packages is now available.

Please refer to
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=5800&group_id=15364
for changes.

A new Release of the ACDK packages is now available.
Please refer to
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=5800&group_id=15364
for changes.

After a long, long time a new snapshot was taken from the current ACDK development.
Download at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15364&release_id=93039.

I also updated the reorganized web at http://acdk.sourceforge.net.

The page http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=5800&group_id=15364 contains information about changes and open issues.

Please refer also to http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=11524&group_id=15364 for information about porting ACDK to other platforms.... read more

Whats new:
- defined a operator << for StringBuffer and PrintWriter to stream values in a easy to use and better performance.
- Fixed a zoo of bugs in the util Collection classes
- ACDK handbook in the Web.
- Improved performance (* 0.2 - * 3) for + operator with
Strings.
- Reduce overhead for normal method call up to * 1000 with
introducing the IN() method argument attribute for
Reference object types.
- Reorganization of sources in acdk_core
- integration of acdk_dmi into acdk::lang::dmi
- acdkx_com alpha/beta version:
ActivX-Client: Control all COM-Objects with
ACDK and ACDK-Scripting clients.
ActivX-Server: Control all ACDK-Object with COM-Clients (Visual Basic, VBScript)
- test for using control COM-Object (MS Word) in several scripting languages (ACDK-C++, lisp, tcl, perl, python)
- Rewritten basic DMI-Funktions. (acdk::lang::sys::StdDispatch)
- Improved performance on Arrays on appending items. ... read more

A new snapshot of ACDK is available:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/acdk/acdk-all-src-2001-09-02_18-58-49.tar.gz

I also updated the documentation on
http://acdk.sourceforge.net

The changes since last snapshot:
- Improved performance on Arrays on appending
items.
- Fixed bug in acdk::lang::ref::Reference
- New acdk::io::SubReader, a filter which reads
segments of another Reader
- First version of acdk_vfile with virtual file
system implementation for tar and zip files.
- New internal file system ".ressource@"
- Redesigned acdk::io::File to support other file
types like tar/zip archives.
- Reworked acdk::lang::String for better
performance.
These changes may break existent code. Please
refer to the documentation.

I recently make a new snapshot available.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/acdk/acdk-all-src-2001-08-12_17-33-38.tar.gz

Changed:
- pre-alpha version of acdk_vfile with a incomplete
virtual file implementation for tar files.
- Redesigned acdk::io::File to support other file types
like tar/zip archives
- Reworked acdk::lang::String for better performance.
This changes may break existant code. Please refer to
the documentation.... read more

The webpages of http://acdk.sourceforge.net/ are updated to reflect the current snapshot of ACDK.
Some more general pages (tutorial) may not updated.

A new snapshot is availabe:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/acdk/acdk-all-src-2001-07-29_15-47-35.tar.gz
- acdk_python in a first version.
Embedding Python in ACDK and instrumenting all ACDK
classes in Python.
- implemented acdk::text::DecimalFormat.
- Fixed a bug in generating dsp
- implement acdk::xml::sax using expat as implementation
- implemented Object::serialized_equals(),
serialized_clone(), serialized_hashCode() which can use
as a standard implementation for the equals(), clone()
and hashCode() methods.

A new snapshot is available for download:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/acdk/acdk-all-src-2001-07-22_19-26-12.tar.gz

- Fixed Date, DateTimeFormat, GregorianCalendar,
SimpleDateDateFormat and a hand of classes related
Date, Calendar, Locales, Formatting in acdk_core and
acdk_text

- Successfully ported to FreeBSD 4.3
To compile a target just use:
make -f target.bsd

- Fixed ClassLoader. Can load classes from
.so/.dll dynamically.... read more

- condition/mutex fixed for Unix
- gcc 3.0 related bugs fixed
- TODO: Bug in acdk_lang_Test for MSC
Please refer to:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15364&release_id=41160

- another fix for make install on solaris. Uses now an install.sh instead of nativ install executable.
- introduce core_system, which provides basic initialization.
- Fixes in the core_specific- Fixes in the allocator interfaces
- TODO: condition does not work on Solaris with 2 or more CPUs.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15364&release_id=39776

A new weekly snapshot of ACDK is available.

- intial acdk_tools_testunit
- changed some test modules to new acdk_tools_testunit
- initial ::acdk::lang::sys::core_atomicop
- initial ::acdk::lang::sys::Backtrace
- initial ::acdk::lang::sys::core_specific (will replace ThreadLocalImpl
- changed/fixed minor things in acdk_make

See also:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=37991

User reported problems compiling ACDK with GCC 2.96.
I will try to fix until the next week.

Finally the new Release 1.01 of ACDK is out.
Major improvements:
- acdkx_orb: alpha of the built in ACDK ORB
- acdkx_sol: alpha of server tools
- all: changed/enhanced metainformation
- all: improved configuration management.
- all: now tested on Solaris with gcc (thanks to Sourceforge)
- all: improved documentation. Fixed many broken links and include full source browsing
- all: more minor fixes

Im just preparing a new release of ACDK, with new modules (acdkx_orb, acdkx_sol), support for Solaris and more detailed improvements.

A prerelease version of 1.01. is available at:

ftp://ftp.acdk.de/acdk

Any input (bugs, etc.) is appreciated.

Just released the integration of the Tcl-Interpreter and the interface definition for Dynamic Method Invokation (DMI).

If made a new release 1.00.2
The only change in this release is that I extend the configuration mangement and introduced a project workspace metamake feature for generating the top level makefiles and project files.