RemObjects SDK for Delphi

What's new in RemObjects SDK 6.0?

ROZeroConf: a thorough new infrastructure for service publication and discovery. ZeroConf makes it easier than ever to discover available services on the network, and to deploy clients that can run and locate the servers they need to with, literally, no configuration.
Olympia: a new deployable server application that replaces the aging MasterServer and allows to build server farms, where session state and event data from several servers can be stored and maintained in a single location.

RemObjects SDK 6.0 other new features

• Include a new "ServerBaseForm" class to be used in writing WinForms based servers and a new Super HTTP Channel for Silverlight clients.
• All .NET products have also been expanded with experimental support for the new Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, and all SKUs have undergone a thorough visual refresh.

RemObjects SDK for Delphi is a fully managed library that enables you to build fully managed multi-tier servers and clients for the Delphi / FPC , .NET and Mono platforms. RemObjects SDK allows you to remotely access objects residing on a server from clients inside the LAN or across the Internet.

Cross-Platform
One of the main premises of the RemObjects SDK is its full wire-compatibility between the available editions. This allows you to easily combine servers and clients from different platforms - for example a .NET Compact Framework client can connect to a Delphi Server or a Kylix/Linux client can connect to a .NET or Mono Server.

True RAD Service Modeling
All editions of the RemObjects SDK include Service Builder, the RAD service-modeling tool that allows you to easily define the interface for your services, using the efficient and cross-platform RemObjects Definition Language (RODL). Service Builder's plug-in architecture allows you to create custom extensions or plug-in support for additional languages and platforms.

Features of RemObjects SDK for Delphi
The following list provides an overview of the core features of RemObjects SDK that are shared between all editions and available now. Please follow the individual links to read more details about these features.

RemObjects SDK for Delphi General Features:

• Wide range of supported communication channels, including HTTP, TCP, Email, Named Pipes, and local/single-tier
• Super TCP and New Super HTTP Communication channels
• Support for different messaging formats, including the proprietary but very network-efficient BinMessage, as well as open standard SOAP (Article coming soon) and XML-RPC formats.
• RAD Service Builder tool for modelling and defining services.
• Comfortable Service Tester for profiling, bench-marking and stress-testing service applications to ensure that they behave well in high-load scenarios.
• Support for a large variety of native and user-defined data types to be sent across the network, including custom structs, ANSI and Unicode string formats and XML.
• Full wire compatibility between platforms, allowing you to mix clients and servers implemented with different editions of the SDK or running on different operating systems.
• CodeGen for PHP client support, allowing users to access XML-RPC servers from PHP-implemented web sites.
• Absolutely no deployment license fees.
• Full support for C#, Chrome, Visual Basic .NET (.NET Edition) and Delphi/Win32 and C++Builder (Delphi Edition).

Library Features:

• Support for a wide range of platforms, including Delphi / FPC .NET, Mono, 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and Linux.
• 100% native and platform-specific implementations, designed from the ground up for the individual platforms.
• Full source code provided, allowing you to make changes and rebuild the library, if needed.
• Thread safe and fully object oriented architecture that was designed with statelessness and maximum scalability in mind. (Article coming soon)
• Extensible library implementation that allows developers to add their own channels, message formats or other replaceable parts of the framework, to meet user-specific needs.
• Large and extensible set of class factories to control service-instantiation options (pooled, singleton, per-call and more).
• Integrated ZLib data compression to improve message transfer on slow networks.
• Support for Server-to-Client events and call-backs throughEvent Sinks
• Build standalone executables, Windows Services or host your projects in ASP.NET (.NET Edition) or ISAPI/Apache Web Servers (Delphi).
• Built-in security features to prevent DOS attacks and server exploits in Internet Pack for .NET.
• Full support for IPv6 in Internet Pack for .NET.

Service Builder Features:

• RAD user interface for defining services and related types in a platform, language and technology-agnostic manner.
• Create and Edit Services, Event Sinks, Structs, Arrays and Enums
• Write documentation for your services and types right in Service Builder
• Generate code for a wide range of supported languages, including C#, Chrome, Delphi, Visual Basic .NET, C++ and PHP.
• Pluggable architecture, allowing users to extend Service Builder with custom plugins, including support for new languages

IDE Integration features:

• Full integration with the supported IDEs.
• Extensive project templates and new project wizards.
• Project integration of Service Builder with the IDE, allowing you to edit your service definitions within the IDE's project system.
• Integration with Service Tester
• New Welcome Page displayed after the first install to assist new users with getting acquainted with the product.

Web Services:

• Full support for development of SOAP based Web Services.
• Full support for consuming SOAP based Web Services provided by third parties and implemented using non-RemObjects SDK technology.
• Support for importing WSDL service definitions from external sources for service consumption.
• Support for the new Document/Literal and RPC/Literal encoding styles, in addition to RPC/Encoding.