On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Dave Coventry wrote:
>
> > I have Delphi 3 Standard and I still code with it, I never upgraded to
> > 4 because it had a bad reputation, when 5 came out they had changed
> > the license so that you were no longer free to distribute your
> > applications unless you shelled out for the Enterprise edition which
> > was out of my price bracket.
>
> > The bonus, of course, is that my apps are now Cross-platform :)
>
> Much my position, with particular emphasis on non-x86 platforms. I don't think
> saying "Delphi is cross-platform because it supports .NET" is a tenable
> argument.
>
> One thing apropos the Wikia article is that I've found the Delphi-style
> DB-aware components to be a very bad design decision, since they assume that a
> connection to the database can be held open for an extended period. This
> assumption is generally invalid when the server is behind a load-balancing or
> failover proxy.
That is why you need something like TClientDaset and the briefcase model.
It is not an implicit flaw of the Delphi components. Do not forget that
these components should cover a wide range of possible datasets.
Michael.
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