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Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Spinetti, Daniele Teti
Book Image

Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Spinetti, Daniele Teti

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.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Developing web client JavaScript applications with WebBroker on the server

Many Delphi developers think that if you need to develop a web solution, you have to look for something other than Delphi. So, they give up years of Delphi knowledge and start to create a web solution with another technology. Although there are cases where Delphi is not the best choice (for instance, if you are developing a classic website with server-side dynamic generated pages), in most scenarios, Delphi can behave even better than many of the web-only technologies available today. What you need is a good framework to work with. In this recipe, we'll look at the WebBroker technology, available since Delphi 4, and consume it from a JavaScript application. Let's start!

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