Re: Delphi Socket Servers: If you were shown how, would you?

In the real field of applications, for web industry, my favorite
combination is:
- IIS 6
- ISAPI DLL/ISAPI FILTERS build by hand with threadvar (TLS) DB
connections (every thread associated with a connection to DB, no need to
dispatch/close everytime), or using a DB pool (in the case we have a lot
of threads)
- MYSQL cluster backend (or firebird/nexusdb for small load)

So you obtain blazingly fast scalability and 100% reliability.

Sounds extremely interesting, especially the DB part. Would be very
interesting if you could work out a Whitepaper together with Codegear. I
think those are the exactly the thing Delphi needs.
I haven't written any realworld ISAPIs yet (only "hello world" programs), I
guess I'll have to have a look at that once more, as I'm planning to write
an ecommerce site pretty soon. Originally I was planning on using PHP/MySql
but maybe I'll have a look at Delphi instead, since I have bought the
Corelab MySql driver anyway.

Are there any resources you can recommend?




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