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2012-05-28

Synopse mORMot Framework 1.16

By AB4327-GANDI, 2012-05-28. Open Source › mORMot Framework

Our Open Source mORMot framework is now available in revision 1.16.

The main new features are the following:

Interface-based services, i.e. comparable to WCF, but with Delphi strengths;
ORM cache which purpose is to enhance server scaling and client responsiveness;
Automatic JOIN query to unleash the underneath DB power;
SQLite3 engine updated to latest revision 3.7.12.1;
Major update of the associated documentation (now more than 800 pages);
A lot of bug fixes and enhancements, mainly from users requests - thanks you all for your feedback, patches and ideas!

Thanks to its features, mORMot is now able to provide a stand-alone Domain-Driven Design framework for Delphi.

Quite a long and nice road for a little mORMot, and more to come!

Is marketing the new native?

By AB4327-GANDI, 2012-05-28. Pascal Programming

In a very nice (like always) blog post, trolling comments were dispatched about the "native" concept:

Firemonkey is Native UI;
For RemObjects, .Net is the new native in Windows.

From the technical point of view, both assertions are false.

The article was subtitled: "Say a Lie Often Enough and You’ll Start Believing it Yourself".
At least, it is a trolling subject.

It remembered me about some of my past studies, i.e. five years of university studies in Medieval Theology in Italy and France (yes, I know, this is strange background for a Delphi programmer):

"Stat Roma pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus"

Our modern world is not thinking any more, it is sinking into nominalism, whereas IMHO the scientific approach is more compatible with a realistic approach of universals.

Today, marketing is everything.
Is it a necessary evil?

2012-05-25

Domain-Driven design

By AB4327-GANDI, 2012-05-25. Open Source › mORMot Framework

With a previous article, we introduced the concept of "Domain-Driven design" into our framework presentation.

It's now time to detail a bit more this very nice software architecture design, and how mORMot is able to achieve such an implementation pattern.

2012-05-20

Recursive calls and private objects

By AB4327-GANDI, 2012-05-20. Pascal Programming

In a Stack Overflow question, someone asked about some nested procedure call he found out. That is, a procedure inside another procedure.

He found out this coding style to be messy, which sounds like a reasonable opinion. But his alternative proposal of putting the internal procedure outside the main one, i.e. making it global, is IMHO even worse.

In some case, a private class, or even record or object with methods is an handy and maintainable implementation pattern.

2012-05-03

Custom JSON serialization of records

By AB4327-GANDI, 2012-05-03. Open Source › mORMot Framework

By default, during interface-based service call, any record parameter or function result will be serialized with our proprietary binary (and optimized layout) - i.e. RecordLoad and RecordSave functions - then encoded in Base-64, to be stored as plain text within the JSON stream.

But custom record JSON serialization can be defined, as with any class - see this article - or dynamic array - see this article.

Synopse Open Source

May 2012 (5)

Synopse mORMot Framework 1.16

Is marketing the new native?

Domain-Driven design

Recursive calls and private objects

Custom JSON serialization of records