Fost 4

Fost 4 is the new cross platform and open sourced version of our FOST.3™ web application framework.

All of the new code is available under the terms of the Boost license, a BSD/MIT like open source license.

See the Fost project pages for more details about using the libraries. There's also a Fost 4 page over on Ohloh.

Main features

Fost 4 builds up from a set of core libraries that build on various various libraries (the C++ standard library, Boost, OpenSSL, libpqxx etc.). Although the primary purpose of Fost 4 is to allow the creation of modern web applications using C++ it can also be used in a wide variety of other types of product.

• fost-base — Provides the core handling for Unicode, program configuration, JSON, threading, exceptions, dynamic code loading, cryptography and a testing framework.
• fost-internet — Various Internet protocols and networking implementations.
• fost-orm — Allows objects to be created that can be saved to a database. Unlike most database persistence systems (O/RMs) Fost 4 is mot restricted to relational (SQL) databases.
• fost-py — Python language wrappers that allow the other components to be used in Python programs.