DataSnap information links/info

Last Friday’s instalment in the Developer Direct webinar series was entitled Multi-tier, Scalable Development with DataSnap. During the session I collated the links and references together so i could post them here for reference (I’ll doubtless need some of them at some point).

• Paweł Głowacki's DataSnap Labs – step-by-step DataSnap tutorials
• Sample DataSnap web-based app from the DataSnap Labs
• Developing DataSnap Applications – overview
• Getting Started with DataSnap Mobile Connectors
• Using the Mobile DataSnap Connectors – download link for 24 Hours of Delphi session by Mat Delong & David I
• Delphi DataSnap REST server and jQueryMobile web client tutorial available – blog post by Paweł Głowacki with links to article and download
• DataSnap: Your Data where you want it, how you want it – white paper & videos by Bob Swart, and webinar with DavidI
• REST Servers in Delphi XE Using DataSnap - webinar, white paper & 3 videos by Marco Cantù
• Preserving State in DataSnap REST Servers – video by Alistair Christie
• RAD Studio demos on SourceForge

Random information picked up during the webinar:

• in Delphi 2006, MIDAS (Multitier Distributed Application Services Suite) was renamed to DataSnap
• Delphi 2007 re-architected DataSnap to be entirely written in Delphi and had all previous COM-dependencies removed. It was extended to support COM/DCOM, TCP/IP, HTTP & HTTPS
• Delphi 2007 introduced a DBX (dbExpress) database driver to access data from remote DataSnap servers
• DataSnap proxy classes can be regenerated (e.g. if the server has been extended to add functionality) using the context menu on the TSQLConnection component
• Delphi XE DataSnap demos on Code Central can be made to work in Delphi XE2 by adding IndyPeerImpl into the project file uses clause
• DataSnap servers are written using VCL so can be Win32 or Win64
• DataSnap clients can be written on many platforms thanks to the wide range of mobile DataSnap connectors:
• Delphi (VCL or FMX)
• C++ (VCL or FMX)
• C#
• Delphi Prism
• FreePascal (Delphi XE2 Update 4)
• Objective-C
• JavaScript
• PHP
• Java (inc. Android & Blackberry)
• DataSnap server development requires the Enterprise or Architect version of Delphi, C++Builder or RAD Studio.

Most of these notes I scrawled down as they came up so there is every chance the odd detail may be errant….