Re: Delphi Socket Servers: If you were shown how, would you?
- From: "Dennis Landi" <nada@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:21:32 +0530
"Nick Hodges (CodeGear)" <nick.hodges@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dennis Landi wrote:
How many people in this forum have any kind of professional internet
site deployed using any of the web server technology constantly
discussed in the forum?
I developed this:
http://qc.codegear.com
in pure Delphi using ASP.NET
Ok, fine. That's one. And I must say its great to have a Delphi Product
Manager who can say such a thing.
To the extent that developers are worrying that they have to move to Visual
Studio in order to do ASP.NET then I suppose this should allay their fears.
But... How many people out there realize that they don't have to use
Microsoft's IIS webserver or any technology placed on top of it, to build a
web server; but instead they could write and deploy their own native
webserver as a stand-alone executable or service??
All these years, the entire internet market has lain wide open for Borland
to exploit with their own technologies; instead of building on others like
IIS/ISAPI or ASP.NET. Why be beholden and dependant on external web server
technology when Delphi Developers have always had the means to write a web
server from scratch? Why hasn't this information been trumpeted from the
roof tops? We don't need MS technology for web serving. We never have.
The fact is tServerSocket is all you need to build a high performance and
robust webserver. But, believe it or not, that component (instead of being
ehanced) has even now been deprecated in Delphi since verson 7. You can
still get to it, but you have to add it to the component pallette yourself.
And that's just one server-side component that ships with Delphi and so is
free for just about any Delphi license holder. Indy ships too, but I am not
sure if there is a full-fledged HTTP Server available for download to show
developers how to do it? Is there? Who has a link?
In my opinion, a serious lack in the Borland Delphi R&D organization has
been no "Internet Server Guy". I can't think of one, past or present.
We've had a few visionaries in various aspects of Delphi Tech, but they've
been all heavily weighted towards the GUI and not the Server-side
technology. As a result, we've been handed warmed-over IIS dependent
Microsoft knock-offs because of a complete lack of VISION in the
Internet/TCP-IP server space (one of the hottest markets of the decade)
where Delphi Developer's really had an opportunity to compete or even take
the lead.
If you are a Delphi Developer, and if you were given the chance to SIMPLIFY
the whole process of building your own webserver from scratch that had no
dependancies on any other technology, why wouldn't you jump at the chance?
-d
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