Chapter 14: Using the RAD Server

This book has been all about developing applications for various platforms. For the most part, the term platform means the combination of hardware and an operating system, such as iOS, Android phones, macOS, or Windows PCs. But we've also extended that idea to cover various types of applications on these platforms, such as FireMonkey or VCL apps on Windows or web servers running under IIS or Apache.

The last platform we'll look at in this book extends that idea one more time and builds on the server concepts presented in the last two chapters. RAD Server is the pinnacle of Rapid Application Development (RAD) for building multi-tiered, backend servers. It is a powerful application server platform that provides a foundation for writing modules to extend its functionality with Delphi packages, produces a REST interface for communicating JSON or XML data, handles multiple connections with ease either as a standalone server or running under...