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Fearless Cross-Platform Development with Delphi

By : David Cornelius
Book Image

Fearless Cross-Platform Development with Delphi

By: David Cornelius

Overview of this book

Delphi is a strongly typed, event-driven programming language with a rich ecosystem of frameworks and support tools. It comes with an extensive set of web and database libraries for rapid application development on desktop, mobile, and internet-enabled devices. This book will help you keep up with the latest IDE features and provide a sound foundation of project management and recent language enhancements to take your productivity to the next level. You’ll discover how simple it is to support popular mobile device features such as sensors, cameras, and GPS. The book will help you feel comfortable working with FireMonkey and styles and incorporating 3D user interfaces in new ways. As you advance, you’ll be able to build cross-platform solutions that not only look native but also take advantage of a wide array of device capabilities. You’ll also learn how to use embedded databases, such as SQLite and InterBase ToGo, synchronizing them with your own custom backend servers or modules using the powerful RAD Server engine. The book concludes by sharing tips for testing and deploying your end-to-end application suite for a smooth user experience. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to deliver modern enterprise applications using Delphi confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Programming Power
5
Section 2: Cross-Platform Power
11
Section 3: Mobile Power
15
Section 4: Server Power

Chapter 13: Web Modules for IIS and Apache

Some people are surprised when they find out Delphi has support for building web servers. They are even more surprised to find out that support has been there for over 20 years! Delphi and its surrounding ecosystem of tools, open source frameworks, and third-party libraries can be used to build backend web servers based on SOAP or REST protocols, frontend JavaScript clients, or complete full stack web solutions.

In this chapter, we'll take a brief look at the options for building web server applications that come with Delphi, walk through the wizard interfaces that create them, and then show you how to get them up and running under both Microsoft's IIS on Windows and Apache on Windows and Linux.

In this chapter, we will cover the following main topics:

  • Surveying website-building options in Delphi
  • Getting comfortable with the underlying framework
  • Building an ISAPI web module for IIS on Windows
  • Getting started...