2010/5/7 Razvan Adrian Bogdan <[email protected]>: > Web programming in Lazarus/Delphi can be done in 3 ways: > - Non persistent safe CGI, you have to do persistence yourself, this is ok, > requires some work but is no the fastest way of doing things, you do get a > free garbage collector <hint>Implement something like smart pointers in C++ > using operator overloading ?</hint>, interfaces are too much overhead. > - Persistent building a module/plugin (not safe), or using FastCGI, SCGI or > a small HTTP server behind a bigger one, i would probably try the HTTP > backend (proxy) server behind the real server because FastCGI has poor > support (very old apache module) and SCGI doesn't seem too well known. > - The full thing with whatever backend, everything managed by Lazarus just > like a desktop app something like Morfik/Intraweb, this is probably the > least efficient way of doing web stuff but it would be ok if you only input > data and output reports without the need to customize anything, people seem > to complain about ASP.NET for being too difficult to learn and customize. > I'm not sure if threading support is better now, last time i checked, there > were still some issues with threads in FPC, the developer who wrote PWU > complained a lot about threading support being a major obstacle in FPC, if > you want a faster HTTP or FastCGI service instead of the slow but safe CGI > you really need good/predictible threading and absolutely no leaks so the > SmartPointer/ReferenceCounting would be really useful because in most > projects there are other people that forget to free some stuff.
What do you use? Have you made any real app using some of these technologies and FPC? I would like to use FPC for my web apps, but I don't see many examples... Does anyone uses FPC for real web applications? Thanks Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
