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IBPP,
a C++ Client Interface to Firebird Server

What is
Firebird?

What is IBPP?

Who is the IBPP
Team?

Licensing

Where can I get
IBPP?

Where/How to get
support?

Where does IBPP come
from?

Why
has this site been moved away from
www.editthis.info?
IBPP, a C++ Client Interface
to Firebird Server

On this web
site, you will find resources and reference
documentation about IBPP, a C++ Client Interface to Firebird
Server (and InterBase®).
The current released code is at version 2.5.3.1 and the
documentation on this site applies to that version. Firebird 2.0 is of course
supported.
Work is in progress toward a 3.0 codebase which will bring
new extensions. You may peek at some very preliminary (and very subject to
significant changes) information about the version
3.0.
What is Firebird?

Firebird is an
open source relational database server offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux,
Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency,
high performance, powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.
It has been used in many production systems within a large number of commercial
companies since 1981.
Firebird is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers,
technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform
relational database management system based on the source code released by
Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) under the InterBase Public
License v.1.0 on 25 July, 2000.
What is IBPP?

IBPP, where the â€ÅšPP’ stands for â€Åš++’, is a C++ client interface for Firebird
versions 1.0, 1.5 and further. It also works with InterBase® 6.0, though it is
expected it might only support Firebird in the future. It is a class library,
free of any specific development tool dependancies. It is not tied to any
â€Åšvisual’ or â€ÅšRAD’ tool. It was indeed developed to add Firebird access in any
C++ application. Those applications using IBPP can be non-visual (CORBA/COM
objects, other libraries of classes and functions, procedural â€Åšlegacy’ code, for
instance). But it can of course also be used in visual or RAD environments. IBPP
is indeed purely a dynamic SQL interface to Firebird. In some
easy to
use C++ classes, you will find nearly all what is needed to access a
Firebird database, and manipulate the data. IBPP also offers access to most of
the administrations tasks: creating a database, modifying its structure,
performing online backups, administering user accounts on the server and so on.

Who is the IBPP
Team?

All the persons and organizations who directly contribute either to the
development or the support of IBPP. The initial contributor to the project was
T.I.P. Group S.A.
Licensing

IBPP is an open-source free software project. Here is the IBPP
License document.
Where can I get
IBPP?

Jump to our development pages on SourceForge where IBPP development is
hosted. There you can download the latest released code, and often, the latest
beta too. Sourceforge is also the home of our code repository, see the
Subversion tab. You can browse the code online.
Where/How to get
support?

Well, first, read the reference guide.
Then please use the ibpp-discuss users mailing list for
general assistance. We ask you to first subscribe to the list, then post your questions to the
list.
(Due to the anti-spam techniques on this list, posts by non list members
are held for review by administrators, and depending when those find time to
look for held messages, your question might experience delays of multiple hours
before being delivered to the group of users. Also if you’re not subscribed to
the list, you won’t get the answers to your questions.)
You are welcome to report bugs through the bug database system available on
the project
page at SourceForge. It may be a good idea to first discuss the issue on the
list.
Where does
IBPP come from?

IBPP comes from IInterface, an internal proprietary and
experimental project of T.I.P. Group S.A.
back in 1999 (that’s in Belgium, Europe). In august 2000,
IInterface was re-worked and got released. The motivation was to
allow further collaborative open-source, open-minded development of the class
library and port it to Linux too. Yes, the primary and original development
environment was Win32.
Why has this site
been moved away from www.editthis.info?

For some weeks this new wiki documentation site has been hosted on the free
service http://www.editthis.info/. Why isn’t this the case anymore?

http://www.editthis.info/ is a very good free MediaWiki hosting
provider. We thank them sincerely for the short time we spent there. Their
sysops have been helpful and very kind, answering quickly our support requests
and showing a real motivation in helping. We can recommend this hosting provider
for wikis to be hosted on the MediaWiki software.
Though, seeing how easy it was for us to host the wiki by ourselves, on
equipment and lines we already had anyway, using a wiki software closer to our
needs and not loaded with capabilities we would never make use of, we chose to
re-implement everything using DokuWiki on our servers. Those are the servers
which until january 2006 had hosted our previous web site version for 6 years
without any issues. We have to admit that the IBPP Team being made of
programmers, the minor challenge of setting up and running the wiki all by
ourselves was also appealing. It was a non negligible part of our decision to
move.




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