March 9, 2006
Delphi and AJAX Demo Site
As you might recall from posts last November I gave a short BOF talk on AJAX in Delphi at the last Borland Conference. As I'm looking further to make a few more experiments with this technology (along with Internet Express), I've found the time to publish that example on a brand new AJAX demo site from mine, http://ajax.marcocantu.com/.
The site offers a small collection of links, the code download (it is not easy to put all of the pieces together, though) and features a simple master/detail application with data fetched on request and browser-based XSLT processing to display it. Enjoy and let me know what you think. More will come. (BTW, notice that there are currently a couple of visualization errors in Internet Explorer, nothing big, though).
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Delphi and AJAX Demo Site
Marco, A fantastic start! I am looking forward to reading EVERYTHING you write on Ajax. I am most interested in building an Ajax Web version of my Delphi DataSnap GUI. I have a well tested stateless DataSnap application server (ala Pooler demo) and database back-end that I would like to reuse. To make this work, I believe that the Internet Express JavaScript files would have to be integrated into an Ajax framework. I will download your demo and I will keep visiting this blog often!Comment by Tom Wilk on March 9, 05:55
Delphi and AJAX Demo Site
Are you using delphi.net or win 32?Comment by Sean Cross [http://www.sourceitsoftware.com] on March 9, 10:29
Delphi and AJAX Demo Site
Eber, the site has some limited HTML issues, but I won't say it is broken (unless you hit it while I was experimenting last night). If you see specific problems can you email them to me (or post here)? Tom, that's the direction I plan working. Contributions are welcome, though! Sean, I built it in Win32. For this site I recompiled it in Kylix (as this is a Linux server). The Delphi application is a WebBroker CGI using ClientDataSet XML files as a "database".Comment by Marco Cantù [http://www.marcocantu.com] on March 9, 10:37
Delphi and AJAX Demo Site
Marco, 1. Did you put out your latest source in the ZIP? I looked in the ZIP file and the code seemed out of date. 2. Sounds like we have nearly identical goals here, DataSnap, Apache, Linux, Kylix, Ajax... sweet. :>) 3. I've read "Ajax in Action" (nearly cover-to-cover), so I have a clue on how this Ajax thing works. 4. For my experiment, I am interested in trying out OpenRico, especially the grid => http://openrico.org/rico/livegrid.page 5. Is there enough interest in Delphi and Ajax for its own community Web site to host demos? If I can find the time to make one work, would you review and publish? I do not have my own site at the moment. TomComment by Tom Wilk on March 9, 15:49
Delphi and AJAX Demo Site
Tom, "openrico" is very interesting indeed. I think there is interest in Delphi and AJAX... and I'm interested in hosting demos on my site, feel free to contact me over email if you have specific ideas.Comment by Marco Cantù [http://www.marcocantu.com] on March 9, 16:17
Delphi and AJAX Demo Site
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Comment by Eber Irigoyen [http://ebersys.blogspot.com/] on March 9, 02:44