Rogue Wave Software Inc has a new version of its Tools.h++ C++ development environment which offers an interface to support the new ANSI/ISO Standard C++ Library, plus additional Standard- compatible collection classes. Rogue Wave says Tools.h++ 7.0 determines whether the Standard C++ Library can run in the developer’s environment and – depending on its availability – uses either the Standard C++ Library or a Tools.h++ implementation. The 7.0 release will be shipped by the major compiler vendors that support the Standard C++ Library. Hewlett- Packard Co, Sun Microsystems Inc, Silicon Graphics Inc, Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG and others have licensed 7.0 and Rogue Wave’s Standard C++ Library implementation. The 7.0 release also includes five new collection classes extending Standard C++ Library; persistent template classes – non-intrusive persistence enabling developers to make their own classes persistent without having to inherit from a Rogue Wave root class – support fo r Posix-compliant and variable length expressions, new template classes and an endian stream binary format for exchanging data among MS-DOS, Windows NT, Windows95, Unix, OS/2 and Mac OS environments. The 7.0 release costs from $400. Maintenance is $200. Rogue Wave’s Standard C++ Library is $200, maintenance, $200. A bundle of the two is priced at $700 through May 31.
