The C++ Portable Components currently consist of four libraries. The Foundation library contains a platform abstraction layer (including classes for multithreading, file system access, logging, etc.), as well as a large number of useful utility classes, such various stream buffer and stream classes, URI handling, and many more. The remaining libraries include: o Crypto - Encrypt/decrypt data or I/O streams o Data - database access ODBC, SQLite, MySQL client o Net - network classes (sockets, HTTP, etc.) o NetSSL - SSL/TLS protocol sockets based on OpenSSL o PageCompiler - C++ Server Page Compiler, for dynamic HTML in C++ apps o XML - parser with SAX2 and DOM interfaces and an XMLWriter o Util - config files and command line arguments, various utility classes o Zip classes for (de)compressing data or I/O streams This is now known as the '-all' distribution by the Poco project, but the FreeBSD port remains named -ssl for hysterical raisins. WWW: http://pocoproject.org