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Delphi Cookbook

You're reading from   Delphi Cookbook Recipes to master Delphi for IoT integrations, cross-platform, mobile and server-side development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788621304
Length 668 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Daniele Teti Daniele Teti
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Daniele Spinetti Daniele Spinetti
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Table of Contents (12) 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. Linux Development 8. Riding the Mobile Revolution with FireMonkey 9. Using specific platform features 10. Delphi and IoT 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

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...

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