The EKON 29 Konference in Dusseldorf just ended.
Nice year, with a lot of AI talks.
To keep the pressure low, I did not talk about AI, but gave 3 sessions and 1 workshop about mORMot. Here are the slides I used.
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2025-10-29
EKON 29 Slides
2025-10-29. Open Source › mORMot Framework
2024-01-01
Happy New Year 2024 and Welcome MGET
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.
2022-07-09
Native TLS Support for mORMot 2 REST or WebSockets Servers
2022-07-09. Open Source › mORMot Framework
Since the beginning, we delegated the TLS encryption support to a reverse proxy server, mainly Nginx. Under Windows, you could setup the http.sys HTTPS layer as usual, as a native - even a bit complicated - solution.
Nginx has several advantages, the first being a proven and efficient technology, with plenty of documentation and configuration tips. It interfaces nicely with Let's Encrypt, and is very good for any regular website, using static content and PHP. This very blog and the Synopse web site is hosted via Ngnix on a small Linux server.
But in mORMot 2, we introduced a new set of asynchronous web server classes. So stability and performance are not a problem any more. Some benchmarks even consider this server to be faster than nginx (the stability issue mentioned in this post has been fixed in-between).
We just introduced TLS support of our socket-based servers, both the blocking and asynchronous classes. It would use OpenSSL if available, or the SChannel API layer of Windows. Serving HTTPS or WSS with a self-signed certificate is just a matter of a single parameter now, and performance seems pretty good, especially with OpenSSL.
2022-05-21
New Async HTTP/WebSocket Server on mORMot 2
2022-05-21. Open Source › mORMot Framework
The HTTP server is one main part of any SOA/REST service, by design.
It is the main entry point of all incoming requests. So it should better be stable and efficient. And should be able to scale in the future, if needed.
There have always been several HTTP servers in mORMot. You can use the HTTP server class you need.
In mORMot 2, we added two new server classes, one for publishing over HTTP, another able to upgrade to WebSockets. The main difference is that they are fully event-driven, so their thread pool is able to scale with thousands of concurrent connections, with a fixed number of threads. They are a response to the limitations of our previous socket server.
2021-05-14
Enhanced HTTP/HTTPS Support in mORMot 2
2021-05-14. Open Source › mORMot Framework
HTTP(S) is the main protocol of the Internet.
We enhanced the mORMot 2 socket client to push its implementation into more use cases. The main new feature is perhaps WGET-like processing, with hashing, resuming, console feedback, and direct file download.
2014-11-18
HTTP remote access for SynDB SQL execution
2014-11-18. Open Source › Open Source libraries
For mORMot, we developed a fully feature direct access layer to any RDBMS, implemented in the SynDB.pas unit.
You can use those SynDB classes to execute any SQL statement,
without any link to the framework ORM.
At reading, the resulting performance is much higher than using the standard
TDataSet component, which is in fact a true performance
bottleneck.
It has genuine features, like
column access via late-binding,
an innovative ISQLDBRows interface, and ability to directly access
the low-level binary buffers of the database clients.
We just added a nice feature to those classes: the ability to access
remotely, via plain HTTP, to any SynDB supported database!
2014-08-11
Cross-Platform mORMot Clients - Smart Mobile Studio
2014-08-11. Open Source › mORMot Framework
Current version of the main framework units target only Win32 and Win64 systems.
It allows to make easy self-hosting of mORMot servers for local
business applications in any corporation, or pay cheap hosting in the Cloud,
since mORMot CPU and RAM expectations are much lower than a regular
IIS-WCF-MSSQL-.Net stack.
But in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), you would probably need
to create clients for platforms outside the Windows world, especially
mobile devices.
A set of cross-platform client units is therefore available in the
CrossPlatform sub-folder of the source code repository. It allows
writing any client in modern object pascal language, for:
- Any version of Delphi, on any platform (Mac OSX, or any mobile supported devices);
- FreePascal Compiler 2.7.1;
- Smart Mobile Studio 2.1, to create AJAX or mobile applications (via PhoneGap, if needed).
This series of articles will introduce you to mORMot's Cross-Platform abilities:
- Units and platforms;
- Generating the client code wrappers;
- Delphi / FreePascal clients;
- Smart Mobile Studio clients.
Any feedback is welcome in our forum, as usual!
Cross-Platform mORMot Clients - Delphi / FreePascal
2014-08-11. Open Source › mORMot Framework
Current version of the main framework units target only Win32 and Win64 systems.
It allows to make easy self-hosting of mORMot servers for local
business applications in any corporation, or pay cheap hosting in the Cloud,
since mORMot CPU and RAM expectations are much lower than a regular
IIS-WCF-MSSQL-.Net stack.
But in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), you would probably need
to create clients for platforms outside the Windows world, especially
mobile devices.
A set of cross-platform client units is therefore available in the
CrossPlatform sub-folder of the source code repository. It allows
writing any client in modern object pascal language, for:
- Any version of Delphi, on any platform (Mac OSX, or any mobile supported devices);
- FreePascal Compiler 2.7.1;
- Smart Mobile Studio 2.1, to create AJAX or mobile applications (via PhoneGap, if needed).
This series of articles will introduce you to mORMot's Cross-Platform abilities:
- Units and platforms;
- Generating the client code wrappers;
- Delphi / FreePascal clients;
- Smart Mobile Studio clients.
Any feedback is welcome in our forum, as usual!
Cross-Platform mORMot Clients - Generating Code Wrappers
2014-08-11. Open Source › mORMot Framework
Current version of the main framework units target only Win32 and Win64 systems.
It allows to make easy self-hosting of mORMot servers for local
business applications in any corporation, or pay cheap hosting in the Cloud,
since mORMot CPU and RAM expectations are much lower than a regular
IIS-WCF-MSSQL-.Net stack.
But in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), you would probably need
to create clients for platforms outside the Windows world, especially
mobile devices.
A set of cross-platform client units is therefore available in the
CrossPlatform sub-folder of the source code repository. It allows
writing any client in modern object pascal language, for:
- Any version of Delphi, on any platform (Mac OSX, or any mobile supported devices);
- FreePascal Compiler 2.7.1;
- Smart Mobile Studio 2.1, to create AJAX or mobile applications (via PhoneGap, if needed).
This series of articles will introduce you to mORMot's Cross-Platform abilities:
- Units and platforms;
- Generating the client code wrappers;
- Delphi / FreePascal clients;
- Smart Mobile Studio clients.
Any feedback is welcome in our forum, as usual!
Cross-Platform mORMot Clients - Units and Platforms
2014-08-11. Open Source › mORMot Framework
Current version of the main framework units target only Win32 and Win64 systems.
It allows to make easy self-hosting of mORMot servers for local
business applications in any corporation, or pay cheap hosting in the Cloud,
since mORMot CPU and RAM expectations are much lower than a regular
IIS-WCF-MSSQL-.Net stack.
But in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), you would probably need
to create clients for platforms outside the Windows world, especially
mobile devices.
A set of cross-platform client units is therefore available in the
CrossPlatform sub-folder of the source code repository. It allows
writing any client in modern object pascal language, for:
- Any version of Delphi, on any platform (Mac OSX, or any mobile supported devices);
- FreePascal Compiler 2.7.1;
- Smart Mobile Studio 2.1, to create AJAX or mobile applications (via PhoneGap, if needed).
This series of articles will introduce you to mORMot's Cross-Platform abilities:
- Units and platforms;
- Generating the client code wrappers;
- Delphi / FreePascal clients;
- Smart Mobile Studio clients.
Any feedback is welcome in our forum, as usual!
2014-04-18
Introducing mORMot's architecture and design principles
2014-04-18. Open Source › mORMot Framework
We have just released a set of slides introducing ORM, SOA, REST, JSON, MVC, MVVM, SOLID, Mocks/Stubs, Domain-Driven Design concepts with Delphi, and showing some sample code using our Open Source mORMot framework. You can follow the public link on Google Drive! This is a great opportunity to […]
2014-01-05
AES encryption over HTTP
2014-01-05. Open Source › mORMot Framework
In addition to regular HTTPS flow encryption, which is not easy to setup due to the needed certificates, mORMot proposes a proprietary encryption scheme. It is based on SHA-256 and AES-256/CTR algorithms, so is known to be secure.
You do not need to setup anything on the server or the client configuration,
just run the TSQLHttpClient and TSQLHttpServer
classes with the corresponding parameters.
2013-09-04
HTTPS communication in mORMot
2013-09-04. Open Source › mORMot Framework
In mORMot, the http.sys kernel
mode server can be defined to serve HTTPS secure content.
Yes, mORMots do like sophistication:
When the aUseSSL boolean parameter is set for
TSQLHttpServer.Create() constructor, the SSL layer will be enabled
within http.sys.
Note that useHttpSocket kind of server does not offer SSL
encryption yet.
We will now define the steps needed to set up a HTTPS server in mORMot.
2011-07-04
WinINet vs WinHTTP
2011-07-04. Open Source › mORMot Framework
If you want to implement an HTTP client access in your application, you may consider several choices:
- Use the provided Indy components;
- Use third-party components like Synapse, ICS or your own WinSock-based wrapper;
- Use WinINet;
- Use WinHTTP.
For our ORM, we tried to avoid external dependencies, and did not have the
need of all Indy's features and overhead.
We fist wrote our own WinSock wrapper, then tried out
WinInet.
When used on our testing benchmark, we found out that WinINet was
dead slow.
Then we tried WinHTTP, the new API provided by Microsoft, and we found
out this was blazing fast. As fast as direct WinSock access,
without the need of writing all the wrapper code.
2011-05-24
How to implement RESTful authentication
2011-05-24. Open Source › mORMot Framework
How to handle authentication in a RESTful Client-Server architecture is a
matter of debate.
Commonly, it can be achieved, in the SOA over HTTP world via:
- HTTP basic auth over HTTPS;
- Cookies and session management;
- Query Authentication with additional signature parameters.
We'll have to adapt, or even better mix those techniques, to match our framework architecture at best.
Each authentication scheme has its own PROs and CONs, depending on the purpose of your security policy and software architecture.
