We live in an interconnected world! A lot of applications nowadays have to exchange data with remote systems. Some of the most commonly used and powerful mechanisms used to define a communication interface between software over the internet are RESTful web services (more information about REST and RESTful interfaces will be provided in Chapter 6, Putting Delphi on the Server, in the recipe Implementing a RESTful interface using WebBroker). Usually, in Delphi, you can use the INDY suite to access HTTP servers. When dealing with HTTPS, INDY produces some headaches because it doesn't use the same SSL layer of the operating systems, but relies on OpenSSL libraries, so you have to provide a specific version of OpenSSL for each different OS your application supports. You cannot benefit from the security updates from...
Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition
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Overview of this book
Delphi is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development on different platforms, saving you the pain of wandering amid GUI widget details or having to tackle inter-platform incompatibilities.
Delphi Cookbook begins with the basics of Delphi and gets you acquainted with JSON format strings, XSLT transformations, Unicode encodings, and various types of streams. You’ll then move on to more advanced topics such as developing higher-order functions and using enumerators and run-time type information (RTTI). As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll understand Delphi RTL functions, use FireMonkey in a VCL application, and cover topics such as multithreading, using aparallel programming library and deploying Delphi on a server. You’ll take a look at the new feature of WebBroker Apache modules, join the mobile revolution with FireMonkey, and learn to build data-driven mobile user interfaces using the FireDAC database access framework. This book will also show you how to integrate your apps with Internet of Things (IoT).
By the end of the book, you will have become proficient in Delphi by exploring its different aspects such as building cross-platforms and mobile applications, designing server-side programs, and integrating these programs with IoT.
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Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Delphi Basics
Becoming a Delphi Language Ninja
Knowing Your Friends – The Delphi RTL
Going Cross-Platform with FireMonkey
The Thousand Faces of Multithreading
Putting Delphi on the Server
Linux Development
Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey
Using specific platform features
Delphi and IoT
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