Chapter 6. Putting Delphi on the Server

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Developing web client JavaScript applications with WebBroker on the server
  • Converting a console service application to a Windows service
  • Serializing a dataset to JSON and back
  • Serializing objects to JSON and back using RTTI
  • Sending a POST HTTP request encoding parameters
  • Implementing a RESTful interface using WebBroker
  • Controlling a remote application using UDP
  • Using App tethering to create a companion app
  • Creating DataSnap Apache modules
  • Creating a WebBroker Apache module and publishing it under HTTPS
  • Using a cross-platform HTTPS client

Introduction

In this chapter, we'll see how well Delphi can behave when it runs on the server. Most server-side technology today ...

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