Getting familiar with what's included
RAD Server is all about saving you lots of time. It comes ready to run and ready to deploy! For developers, it's installed with Delphi, and for deploying to customers, you can download packages from GetIt to automate most of the steps.
Let's go over what comes pre-installed with Delphi.
Running RAD Server on a development environment
RAD Server is comprised of two parts:
- The engine, listening for requests and returning JSON data
- The console, a web server app
The engine provides application endpoints for accessing both built-in and extended functionality through packages that are installed. The console makes requests to the engine and presents a nice web view of your application resources and usage statistics.
There are both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of both of these applications residing in the bin
and bin64
folders of your Delphi installation, respectively. To start the RAD Server engine, simply...