Another interesting performance benchmark post by Roberto Schneider, comparing Java and Delphi implementations:
SOAP and REST – Using GZip with Delphi client
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A Delphi REST client API open source library
Fabricio Colombo created a Delphi REST client API to consume REST services written in any programming language on Github. It supports two implementations, using Indy 10 and WinHTTP.The API was tested in Delphi 7, XE, XE2 and XE3.
The library uses JSON serialization to and from Delphi objects and supports Generics. This allows to perform complex REST commands with little code, for example a GET which retrieves a TPerson object list:
var
vList : TList<TPerson>;
begin
vList := RestClient.Resource('http://localhost:8080/java-rest-server/rest/persons')
.Accept(RestUtils.MediaType_Json)
.Get<TList<TPerson>>();
Habari Client for OpenMQ 2.5a1 released
May 7, 2013 – Habarisoft is pleased to announce release 2.5a1 of its
Delphi and Free Pascal client library for the Open MQ open source
message broker (http://mq.java.net/).
This is the first alpha of release 2.5, which introduces support for
Indy 10.6 and has been tested with build 14 of Open MQ 5.0, the
next-generation message broker version which implements JMS 2.0
(introduced with the new Java EE 7.0 specification). Continue reading
RabbitMQ 3.1.0 message broker released
The RabbitMQ team announced the release of RabbitMQ 3.1.0 – This release introduces eager synchronisation of mirror queue slaves, automatic cluster partition healing, and improved statistics (including charts) in the management plugin. It also adds many smaller new features, bug fixes and performance improvements.
The developers encourage all users of earlier versions of RabbitMQ to upgrade to this latest release.
For Delphi and Free Pascal, Habarisoft offers a client library for RabbitMQ 2.8.7 and newer.
HornetQ 2.3.0.Final released
JBoss Community has released the final release of HornetQ 2.3.0. This includes new features such as replication, multiple backups, multiple failover, fallback and STOMP 1.2 support as well as many other enhancements, fixes and performance tweaks.
A STOMP based Delphi and Free Pascal client library for HornetQ is available from Habarisoft.
XE4: Changes in the Delphi language for ARM and mobile
In his blog post “Changes in the Delphi language for ARM and mobile support“, Tim Anderson summarizes some of the biggest language changes in the “next generation” compiler for mobile development in RAD Studio XE4, based on the paper “The Delphi Language for Mobile Development“, which you can find here. The changes include limitation to only one string type (UTF16), zero-based strings, automatic reference counting and the announced deprecation of the with statement.
Indy 10.6 support in Habari Web Components 2.4a1
The first alpha release of Habari Web Components 2.4 with support for Internet Direct (Indy) 10.6 will be available for registered users in the next days. The demo applications are already built with revision 5002 of the Indy 10.6 library, which also includes new fixes for Delphi 6 and Free Pascal 2.6
