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Expert Delphi

You're reading from   Expert Delphi Robust and fast cross-platform application development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460165
Length 506 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paweł Głowacki Paweł Głowacki
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Preface 1. Fasten Your Seat Belts FREE CHAPTER 2. Mind Your Language 3. Packing Up Your Toolbox 4. Playing with FireMonkey 5. FireMonkey in 3D 6. Building User Interfaces with Style 7. Working with Mobile Operating System 8. Extending to the Internet of Things 9. Embedding Databases 10. Integrating with Web Services 11. Building Mobile Backends 12. App Deployment 13. The Road Ahead

Do it yourself with DataSnap

WebBroker is good for really simple HTTP server functionality, but the more complex the system you want to build, the more you look into complete Delphi multi-tier frameworks such as DataSnap or RAD Server. They provide a lot more higher-level functionality than you can find in WebBroker.

The DataSnap framework has been part of Delphi since its early days and has been evolved over time. Delphi 3 introduced MIDAS technology to make it easy to build client/server database applications. In Delphi 6, this technology has been renamed to DataSnap and in Delphi 2009 it has been completely rewritten. In this new architecture, remote methods published by a DataSnap server look like database stored procedures that a typical SQL relational database system exposes. The dbExpress database access framework has been reused and a special DBX driver has been built...

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