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Delphi Cookbook

You're reading from   Delphi Cookbook Over 60 hands-on recipes to help you master the power of Delphi for cross-platform and mobile development on multiple platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785287428
Length 470 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Daniele Teti Daniele Teti
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Delphi Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Becoming a Delphi Language Ninja 3. Knowing Your Friends – the Delphi RTL 4. Going Cross-Platform with FireMonkey 5. The Thousand Faces of Multithreading 6. Putting Delphi on the Server 7. Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey 8. Using Specific Platform Features Index

Implementing a RESTful interface using WebBroker


What's REST? Representational state transfer (REST) is an architectural style consisting of a coordinated set of architectural constraints applied to components, connectors, and data elements, within a distributed hypermedia system.

The term representational state transfer was introduced and defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding in his doctoral dissertation at UC Irvine. If you want to know more about REST, I strongly suggest you read Fielding's dissertation here: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm.

So, how do you build a RESTful system in Delphi? There are a lot of solutions but, according to the mentioned definitions, RESTful is not a set of libraries or algorithms, it is an architectural style, and as such, it can be respected 100%, 60%, 30%, and so on. There is a sort of scale used to measure how much a system is RESTful or not. This scale was first introduced by Leonard Richardson at the QCon conference, so...

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