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UpTools contains powerful tools to facilitate and accelerate the following aspects of modern application development: 1. High performance computing (HPC) 1.1 Load distribution and parallel processing in transactional applications. 1.2 Algorithms and scientific applications parallelization and acceleration. UpTools facilitates workload partition and parallelization. The programmer has to define the data space partition criteria and the processing algorithms to run over the partitions, then UpTools divides the processing in jobs among the threads and also handles the consolidation of the results of each thread's job. It also manages and enables parallelism in transactional servers. 2. Multi-threading 2.1 Threads 2.2 Mutual exclusion (mutex), semaphores, read/write locks, scope auto locking 2.3 Conditions 2.4 Thread-specific data Internally UpTools multithreading classes and templates use Posix threads, but show a clear and simple interface to the C++ developer, considerably reducing errors and development time. 3. Time and timers 3.1 Time handling. 3.2 Timers and multithreading It defines classes and methods for time handling. It reliably and orderly manages timers in multithreaded environments. 4. Memory management 4.1 Smart pointers and objects. 4.2 Easy management and tracking of objects.in memory. The library includes smart pointers to manage the life of the objects in memory in multi-threaded environments. It has memory debug options, and allows tracking at runtime of the objects in memory. 5. Text and strings 5.1 Operators on strings 5.2 Regular expressions, substitutions 5.3 Configuration file parsing and management UpTools includes multiple operators between strings and other types to facilitate text handling. It provides a powerful C++ interface for Posix regular expressions and substitutions. It manages application configuration files. 6. Databases 6.1 Common interface for different vendor databases. 6.2 Database access in multithreaded environment. The library allows to access different databases without the need to alter the source code of the programs. It currently supports Postgresql and MySql, but it is expected to support also DB2 and others. It allows automatic management of backup database servers and transparently provides unique connections for each thread. 7. Networking 7.1 IP host and network address handling. 7.2 DNS queries 7.3 Asynchronus DNS queries. 7.4 Sockets 7.5 SSL and TLS 7.6 Simplified management of events in multiple simultaneous communications. UpTools enables a fast and simple handling of host and network addresses and sockets. Because of the long delays (in cpu time) of DNS queries, the library enables asynchronous DNS queries, running in parallel to the application threads, associating code for the processing of the results, to the event of receiving the answer from the server. It allows encrypted communications using TLS and SSL, with minimal changes to programs already coded without encryption. It also allows certificate handling. The Linux version of the UpTools library can be downloaded from the following link: http://www.palermo.edu/ingenieria/uptools_ingles.html The library distribution contains numerous examples (in directory doc/examples) using of the different classes and templates, to demonstrate its capacities and usage For more information, coments and feedback please write to: uptools@palermo.edu
