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Delphi Programming Projects

By : William Duarte
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Delphi Programming Projects

By: William Duarte

Overview of this book

Delphi is a cross-platform programming language and software development kit that supports rapid application development for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Android, and iOS. With the help of seven practical projects, this book will guide you through the best practices, Delphi Run-Time Library (RTL) resources, and design patterns. Whether you use the Visual Component Library (VCL) or FireMonkey (FMX) framework, these design patterns will be implemented in the same way in Delphi, using Object Pascal. In the first few chapters, you will explore advanced features that will help you build rich applications using the same code base for both mobile and desktop projects. In addition to this, you’ll learn how to implement microservice architecture in Delphi. As you get familiar with the various aspects of Delphi, you will no longer need to maintain source code for similar projects, program business rules on screens, or fill your forms with data access components. By the end of this book, you will have gained an understanding of the principles of clean code and become proficient in building robust and scalable applications in Delphi.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Introducing RAD Server

RAD Server is a set of solutions to create and deploy service-based applications (SOA, microservices, and so on) enabling developers to create new backends or migrate existing business logic to a modern, open, stateless, secure, and scalable service-based architecture. It can be distributed on a private Windows or Linux server, or in the cloud on Amazon, Rackspace, and Azure.

With RAD Server, there is no more need for you to build your own services and backend servers, you just load your Delphi methods into RAD Server and publish your backend code to any client, through REST/JSON endpoints. Embedded services and integrations provide the most common functionalities and access to the major external systems.

Before the RAD Server, developers had to create their own backends for Delphi applications, using tools such as DataSnap, which provide the basic building...