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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

Writing cross-platform Apache web modules

The first few steps in creating an Apache web module are very similar to creating an IIS module; just step through the New Web Server Application wizard:

  1. Create a new Web Server Application project.
  2. If you have Delphi Enterprise, check Linux in addition to Windows for the platform and click Next.
  3. Select Apache dynamic link module for WebBroker Project Type and click Next.
  4. You can leave everything as their defaults on the Apache Module Options page, both Apache version and the name of our new Apache module.

Figure 13.20 – Final step of creating an Apache web module project

After clicking Finish, the Apache web module will be created for you. If you're using Delphi Enterprise or higher, you will have both the Windows and Linux platforms enabled.

Note

Apache on Windows cannot support both 32-bit and 64-bit apps like IIS can – there's no configuration option to tell...