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2024-10-12

Some Rodents in the State of Denmark

By Arnaud Bouchez, 2024-10-12. Open Source › mORMot Framework

Since decades, Delphi has user groups everywhere, from Australia to Austria, from Russia to California.
I will join the DAPUG (Database Application Programmers Users Group), which is the Danish Delphi user Group, in the next weeks, for two exciting days of Workshop.

Join us on October 22 and 23, in the great Hotel Hesselet, Nyborg!

From the official DAPUG statement:

Arnaud Bouchez is a Delphi guru located in France. He is a frequent speaker at various conferences in Europe, and this workshop, autumn 2024 will be his first appearance at Hotel Hesselet for the DAPUG Workshop.
Arnaud is the main contributor to the mORMot framework which is a huge framework built over many years as pure open source MPL + GPL + LGPL, so anyone can use it anywhere.
In his best Frenglish Arnaud will take us through some of the best gems in the framework, working with interfaces, working with legacy code, working with tests, working with interfaces and a whole bunch of great stuff.
We might even take a look at adding some FPC and Lazarus as additional software in our toolbox.

https://www.dapug.dk/2024/08/arnaud-bouchez-delphi-with-mormot-as.html

Thanks a lot Jens for the invitation!
I can't wait for meeting our Viking friends and introduce them to our small mORMot with this Workshop!

PS: just before my departure, we will celebrate and release a new stable version of our framework, the 2.3 stable.

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2024-09-06

Swagger/OpenAPI Client Generator for Delphi and FPC

By Arnaud Bouchez, 2024-09-06. Open Source › mORMot Framework

OpenAPI, which was formerly called Swagger, is a set of specifications to encode the server API endpoints definitions into text, mostly JSON.
From this reference text, you can generate client code to access the service, in a vast number of languages.

Delphi seems to be far behind other languages, in terms of this code generation. I found nothing even working for FPC.
Since we needed it for our internal tools at Tranquil IT, we just published the new mormot.net.openapi.pas Open Source unit, which is quite a game changer. Thanks Andreas for starting this project, and testing it in its early age!

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2024-02-01

IDocList/IDocDict JSON for Delphi and FPC

By Arnaud Bouchez, 2024-02-01. Open Source › mORMot Framework

Since years, our Open Source mORMot framework offers several ways to work with any combination of arrays/objects documents defined at runtime, e.g. via JSON, with a lot of features, and very high performance.

Our TDocVariant custom variant type is a powerful way of working with such schema-less data, but it was found confusing by some users.
So we developed a new set of interface definitions around it, to ease its usage, without sacrificing its power. We modelized them around Python Lists and Dictionaries, which is proven ground - with some extensions of course.

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2024-01-01

Happy New Year 2024 and Welcome MGET

By Arnaud Bouchez, 2024-01-01. Open Source › mORMot Framework

Last year 2023 was perhaps not the best ever, and, just after Christmas, we think about all people we know still in war or distress.
But in the small mORMot world, 2023 was a fine millesima. A lot of exciting features, a pretty good rank in benchmarks, and a proof of being ready for the next decade.

For this new year, we would like to introduce you to a new mORMot baby: the mget command line tool, a HTTP/HTTPS web client with peer-to-peer caching.
It is just a wrapper around a set of the new PeerCache feature, built-in the framework web client class - so you can use it in your own projects if you need to.

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2023-12-09

Native X.509, RSA and HSM Support

By Arnaud Bouchez, 2023-12-09. Open Source › mORMot Framework

Today, almost all computer security relies on asymmetric cryptography and X.509 certificates as file or hardware modules.
And the RSA algorithm is still used to sign the vast majority of those certificates. Even if there are better options (like ECC-256), RSA-2048 seems the actual standard, at least still allowed for a few years.

So we added pure pascal RSA cryptography and X.509 certificates support in mORMot.
Last but not least, we also added Hardware Security Modules support via the PKCS#11 standard.
Until now, we were mostly relying on OpenSSL, but a native embedded solution would be smaller in code size, better for reducing dependencies, and easier to work with (especially for HSM). The main idea is to offer only safe algorithms and methods, so that you can write reliable software, even if you are no cryptographic expert.

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2023-10-31

Pascal In The Race: TFB Challenge Benchmarks

By Arnaud Bouchez, 2023-10-31. Open Source › mORMot Framework

Round 22 of the TechEmpower Frameworks has just finished.
And this time, there was a pascal framework in the race: our little mORMot!

Numbers are quite good, because we are rated #12 among 302 frameworks over 791 runs of several configurations.

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2023-09-08

End Of Live OpenSSL 1.1 vs Slow OpenSSL 3.0

By Arnaud Bouchez, 2023-09-08. Open Source

You may have noticed that the OpenSSL 1.1.1 series will reach End of Life (EOL) next Monday...
Most sensible options are to switch to 3.0 or 3.1 as soon as possible.

mormotSecurity.jpg, Sep 2023

Of course, our mORMot 2 OpenSSL unit runs on 1.1 and 3.x branches, and self-adapt at runtime to the various API incompatibilities existing between each branch.
But we also discovered that switching to OpenSSL 3.0 could led into big performance regressions... so which version do you need to use?

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2023-09-06