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Expert Delphi

You're reading from   Expert Delphi Robust and fast cross-platform application development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805121107
Length 424 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Marco Cantù Marco Cantù
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Paweł Głowacki Paweł Głowacki
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Building Blocks FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Fasten Your Seat Belts 3. Chapter 2: Mind Your Language 4. Chapter 3: Packing Up Your Toolbox 5. Chapter 4: Using the Parallel Programming Library 6. Part 2: Going Mobile
7. Chapter 5: Playing with FireMonkey 8. Chapter 6: FireMonkey in 3D 9. Chapter 7: Building User Interfaces with Style 10. Chapter 8: Working with Mobile Operating Systems 11. Chapter 9: Desktop Apps and Mobile Bridges 12. Part 3: From Data to Services
13. Chapter 10: Embedding Databases 14. Chapter 11: Integrating with Web Services 15. Chapter 12: Building Mobile Backends 16. Chapter 13: Easy REST API Publishing with RAD Server 17. Chapter 14: App Deployment 18. Chapter 15: The Road Ahead 19. Index
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Building Mobile Backends

In the mobile development world, it is common to have dedicated developers and teams responsible for just building mobile frontends (the actual app running on the device) and backends (web services for accessing data and hosting some of the business logic). For this reason, we also want to wear the backend developer hat and use Delphi to build modern, scalable, secure, fault-tolerant REST API web services with full database access. This chapter will cover the following points:

  • Delphi and multi-tier architectures
  • Working at a low level with WebBroker
  • Do-it-yourself with DataSnap

The objective of this chapter is to get you to understand the different choices for backend technologies in Delphi and gain practical knowledge on how to build web services. There is one further web service technology in Delphi called RAD Server, which will be the topic of the next chapter.

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