Introduction to ACDK

ACDK - Artefaktur Component Development Kit - is a platform independent library for generating distributed server-based components and applications.

ACDK is designed to serve as a backend technology, with a similar target of Microsoft's .NET or Sun's ONE platform, but instead of using Basic/C# or Java as programming language, it uses C++ as core implementation language.

ACDK implements the standard library packages, including acdk::lang, acdk::lang::reflect, acdk::util, acdk::io, acdk::text (including regexpr), acdk::net, acdk::sql, acdk::xml and more. Todays technoligies like flexible Allocator/Garbage Collection, Threading and Unicode are implemented in the core of ACDK.

With the extensions of ACDK C++ objects are available for reflection, serialization, aspect oriented class attributes and [D]ynamic [M]ethod [I]nvocation. This DMI act as an universal object oriented call interface to connect C++ with scripting languages (Java, Perl, Tcl, Python, Lisp, CfgScript, Visual Basic, VBScript,) and standard component technologies (CORBA, COM+/ActiveX).

Main features of ACDK are:

Java like C++-Framework with enhanced memory management features like garbage collection, reflection API, enhanced debugging features.
provides productive packages, similar to the JDK, including acdk::lang, acdk::lang::reflect, acdk::util, acdk::io, acdk::text (including regexpr), acdk::net, acdk::sql, acdk::xml and more.
Integration of scripting languages (Perl, Java 1.3, Tcl, Lisp, Python, VisualBasic, C#, VBScript).
Platform idenpendend and scriptable GUI programming (in alpha version).
Framework for server applications (application server, web server, services, deamons).
Integration of Middleware (CORBA, DCOM/COM+. Planned: XML-RPC, .NET, SOAP, RMI).
Integration of Enterprise ressources (SQL, ODBC, MySQL, SAP R/3. Planned: LDAP, MQSeries)