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Delphi Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Daniele Teti
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Delphi Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Daniele Teti

Overview of this book

Delphi is a cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Google Android, and Apple iOS. It helps you to concentrate on the real business and save yourself the pain of wandering amid GUI widget details, or having to tackle inter-platform incompatibilities. It also has a wide range of drag-and-drop controls, helping you code your business logic into your business model, and it compiles natively for desktop and mobile platforms. This book will teach you how to design and develop applications, deploy them on the cloud platform, and distribute them within an organization via Google Play and other similar platforms. You will begin with the basics of Delphi and get acquainted with JSON format strings, XSLT transformations, unicode encodings and various types of streams. We then move on to more advanced topics such as developing higher-order functions and using enumerators and RTTI. You will get an understanding of how Delphi RTL functions and how to use FireMonkey in a VCL application. We will then cover topics such as multithreading, using the parallel programming library and putting Delphi on a server. We will also take a look at the new feature of WebBroker Apache modules and then ride the mobile revolution with FireMonkey. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and deploy cross-platform applications using Delphi .
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Index

Creating WebBroker Apache modules


As we have already said, WebBroker is a technology available since Delphi 4 to help create web server applications exposing an HTTP/HTTPS interface. It is a very thin layer on top of HTTP/S but I love it because it doesn't try to do a lot of things, but remains at a low level, allowing you to implement the rest of the architecture as you need. Therefore, Embarcadero used WebBroker as a framework to create DataSnap and EMS. So it is very important to know it, because by knowing it, you have all the power to create web "things" such as HTTP/S services, HTML interfaces, and so on.

In this recipe, we'll create a 64bit WebBroker Apache module, install it in a custom Apache 2.4 distribution, and secure the server by configuring HTTPS access. Internally, our application uses DelphiMVCFramework, but all the steps are still valid for other frameworks or no frameworks at all (apart from WebBroker). Let's start!

Getting ready

We need to get an Apache distribution. You...