RE: DELPHI - where does it fit in the scheme of things?

We use Delphi and CF here. The main reason for that is most of our products have some standard application interfaces as well as web interfaces. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 1:48 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: DELPHI -

RE: DELPHI - where does it fit in the scheme of things?

For those that are using Delphi, what role does it play in the internet? Is it being used strictly for COM access with CF, or are there hidden web abilities some of us may be unaware of? At 07:45 AM 1/9/01 -0600, you wrote: We use Delphi and CF here. The main reason for that is most of our

RE: DELPHI - where does it fit in the scheme of things?

We use it for all of our COM stuff and for all of our stand alone Windows apps. Delphi can be used as a CGI by using its ISAPI capabilities. There are those that argue that Delphi's ISAPI is superior(in speed) to ASP,CF, or whatever. I still think that it is personal preference as to what any

Re: DELPHI - where does it fit in the scheme of things?

Delphi is a client/server RAD development tool, developed by Borland (Inprise or whatever they are called this days). Main competitors are (were) Visual Basic and PowerBuilder. If I'm not mistaken ColdFusion Studio was built using Delphi. form more information go to Borland home page. Marius

Re: DELPHI - where does it fit in the scheme of things?

I remember that Nick Bradbury's original releases of Homesite (before HS was bought by Allaire, which begat CFStudio...) was a Delphi app. It would stand to reason, then, that the current releases at least have some Delphi floating around in them. And wasn't there a known bug with how Delphi

Re: DELPHI - where does it fit in the scheme of things?

If I'm not mistaken ColdFusion Studio was built using Delphi. form more information go to Borland home page. Think you a right. I seem to remember one of the Allaire beta guys mentioning that this was the case ~~ Structure your ColdFusion

RE: DELPHI - where does it fit in the scheme of things?

Yeah, its all Delphi based. I recall this, because the Allaire developers said they would not port CF Studio to linux until Delphi showed up there (which it is about to...so maybe they will port it soon :-) --b -- Bryan Batchelder

DELPHI - where does it fit in the scheme of things?

At one of my sites, an employee who has some influence over my client decision maker has started saying they need to use Delphi in our site, presumably to give himself a role in the web site. We already have too many technologies in my opinion - ASP, ColdFusion, static HTML pages, and my