As we already notified in this blog, Embarcadero has been finally bought by IDERA. Delphi users received a letter from Randy Jacops, IDERA CEO. Written in my mother language, in perfect French. Nice! The letter states that they have 20,000 customers... It sounds more realistic than the numbers […]
Tag - CQRS
2015-06-01
Updated Slides about ORM SOA MVC SOLID DDD
2015-06-01. Open Source › mORMot Framework
One year ago, we published a set of slides about the main concepts implemented by our framework. Mainly about ORM (and ODM), NoSQL, JSON, SOA, MVC (and MVVM), SOLID, DDD, CQRS and some patterns like Stubs, Mocks, Factory, Repository, Unit-Of-Work. Worth a look, if you want to find out the benefits […]
2015-05-18
CQRS Persistence Service of any DDD object with mORMot
2015-05-18. Open Source › mORMot Framework
We introduced DDD concepts some time ago, in a series of articles in this blog. At that time, we proposed a simple way of using mORMot types to implement DDD in your applications. But all Domain Entitities being tied to the framework TSQLRecord class did appear as a limitation, breaking the […]
2013-06-07
Authentication and Authorization
2013-06-07. Open Source › mORMot Framework
Our mORMot framework tries to implement security via:
- Process safety;
- Authentication;
- Authorization.
Process safety is implemented at every n-Tier level:
- Atomicity of the SQLite3 database core;
- RESTful architecture to avoid most synchronization issues;
- ORM associated to the Object pascal strong type syntax;
- Extended test coverage of the framework core.
Authentication allows user identification:
- Build-in optional authentication mechanism, implementing both per-user
sessions and individual REST Query Authentication;
- Authentication groups are used for proper authorization;
- Several authentication schemes, from very secure SHA-256 based challenging to
weak but simple authentication;
- Class-based architecture, allowing custom extension.
Authorization of a given process is based on the group policy,
after proper authentication:
- Per-table access right functionalities built-in at lowest level of
the framework;
- Per-method execution policy for interface-based services;
- General high-level security attributes, for SQL or Service remote
execution.
We will now give general information about both authentication and authorization in the framework.
In particular, authentication is now implemented via a set of classes.
2012-12-31
Enhance existing projects with mORMot
2012-12-31. Open Source › mORMot Framework

Even if mORMot will be more easily used in a project designed from scratch, it fits very well the purpose of evolving any existing Delphi project, or even creating the server side part of an AJAX application.
One benefit of such a framework is to facilitate the transition from a Client-Server architecture to a N-Tier layered pattern.
2012-09-06
Roadmap: interface-based callbacks for Event Collaboration
2012-09-06. Open Source › mORMot Framework
On the mORMot roadmap, we added a new
upcoming feature, to implement one-way callbacks from the
server.
That is, add transparent "push" mode to our
Service Oriented Architecture framework.
Aim is to implement notification events triggered from the server side, very easily from Delphi code, even over a single HTTP connection - for instance, WCF does not allow this: it will need a dual binding, so will need to open a firewall port and such.
It will be the ground of an Event
Collaboration stack included within mORMot, in a KISS way.
Event Collaboration is really a very interesting pattern,
and even if not all your application domain should be written using it, some
part may definitively benefit from it.
The publish /
subscribe pattern provides greater network scalability and a more
dynamic SOA implementation: for instance, you can add listeners to your main
system events (even third-party developed), without touching your main
server.
Or it could be the root of the Event Sourcing part of
your business domain: since callbacks can also be executed on the server side
(without communication), they can be used to easily add nice features like:
complete rebuild, data consolidation (and CQRS), temporal query, event
replay, logging, audit, backup, replication.
2012-07-12
One ORM to rule them all
2012-07-12. Open Source › mORMot Framework
If you discovered the mORMot framework, you may have found out that its implementation may sound restricted, in comparison to other ORMs, due to its design. It would be easy to answer that "it is not a bug, it is a feature", but I suspect it is worth a dedicated article.
Some common (and founded) criticisms are the following (quoting from our
forum - see e.g. this
question):
- "One of the things I don't like so much about your approach to the ORM is the
mis-use of existing Delphi constructs like "index n
" attribute for
the maximum length of a string-property. Other ORMs solve this i.e. with
official Class
-attributes";
- "You have to inherit from TSQLRecord
, and can't persist any
plain class";
- "There is no way to easily map an existing complex database".
I understand very well those concerns.
Our mORMot framework is not meant to fit any purpose, but it is worth
understanding why it has been implemented as such, and why it may be quite
unique within the family of ORMs - which almost all are following the
Hibernate way of doing.