Summary

This chapter has introduced you to the RAD Server technology stack by going through the benefits of using a pre-built infrastructure to manage users, security, and devices with the source code to a full-featured console application. This can jump-start your business application, saving you far more in development costs than the price of deployment licenses. We examined the various developer tools that come with Delphi and RAD Server, what they're used for, and showed how to use them as you build and test. Then we modified a mobile application to communicate with published endpoints and successfully shared data between the two systems.

The hands-on examples we walked through gave you a thorough working knowledge of the power provided by RAD Server, and how this can help you with your own product idea. As you refine the features and polish your user interfaces, you'll be faced with a final set of challenges: how to make sure your application is ready for widespread...