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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

Getting low-level with WebBroker

The most simple and generic web server development framework in Delphi is WebBroker. It is the underlying technology for many specialized web service types that you can build with Delphi, such as SOAP XML Web Services and DataSnap. If you create a new web server app with the New WebBroker App wizard, you can implement arbitrary HTTP server functionality. In our case, that will be a simple web service that will provide REST API access to the To-Do data.

Click on the File | New | Other... menu items in the IDE and double-click on the New Web Server Application wizard in the WebBroker category, as shown in the following screenshot:

New Web Server Application wizard in New Items

Check the option to add Linux support to the project on the first page of the wizard:

Platforms selection in the "New Web Server Application" wizard

On the second...

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