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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)

Creating WebBroker Apache modules

As we have already said WebBroker is a technology that's been 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. It is very important to know this, 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 64-bit 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...