Some folks at Object World last week were wondering whether the establishment of Hewlett-Packard Co-derived Standard Template Library containers as ISO and ANSI standards for storing C++ object classes would harm Rogue Wave Software Inc’s business in that area. The Corvallis, Oregon-based company hit back by signing SunSoft Inc, Silicon Graphics Inc and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG as OEMs for its Standard C++ library, which includes Standard Template Library. It will build future versions of its Tools.h++ C++ development environment, which SunSoft, Silicon Graphics and Siemens Nixdorf already use, on the library. Standard C++ is the migration route to those future versions, the company said. It has also released, Net.h++, a development environment for creating applications that run in mixed Unix, Windows and Windows NT environments across TCP/IP networks. The company claimed applications written with it are protocol and systems independent. It includes a C++ implementation of the Berkeley socket in terface and three architectural layers – communication adaptor, portal and communication services – which provide object programming modules at low, middle, and high levels of abstraction depending on requirement. Net.h++ is up under Solaris and HP-UX Unixes, and Windows NT at from $500.
