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

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?

Hi,

well to be sincere, imho it's important the time-to-market in your case, and also the availability of documents, community.

For example, both ASP.NET and PHP offers to the coder a large suite of classes, and the community is BIG.

You can avoid the headache of session/SSL management, so for "not vertical" projects perhaps these days the solution ASP.NET + DELPHI.NET obtain the both of the worlds: time to market + speed of runtime.

Anyway take a look to the old good www.matlus.com.

Btw. for curiosity: I did www.smartiis.com ISAPI filters with Delphi, and the performance is amazing (using a combination of elegant architecture + low level optimized asm libraries)
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