The brave new world of object-oriented programming must lead to the large-scale buying and selling of objects, and Sun Microsystems Inc’s SunPro software development business has entered a technology development and licensing agreement with Rogue Wave Software Inc, Vancouver, British Columbia supplier of C++ class libraries. The pact centres on Rogue Wave’s Tools.h++ class library, a toolbox of nearly 100 re-usable C++ classes. Under the agreement, enhancements to the libraries will be developed to address such areas as performance, ease-of-use, internationalisation and support for multithreading. SunPro says it intends to distribute the product at some stage as an add-on to its Sparcworks Professional C++ development environment. Tools.h++ has classes for handling time, date, string and character manipulation, linked lists, stacks, queues and vectors, and Smalltalk-like collection classes; it also has an error-handling facility.
