Embarcadero RAD Studio XE Sneak Preview: Coding and Productivity Enhancements for New Development Suite

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of multi-platform database tools and developer software, today announced the first of three Embarcadero® RAD Studio XE sneak previews leading up to the launch of the new application development suite in early September. The upcoming “2011” release will be named RAD Studio XE and will include Delphi® XE, C++Builder® XE, Delphi Prism™ XE and RadPHP™ XE.

“These new capabilities offer very specific benefits that will enable developers to save time on coding, increase productivity and focus on developing quality applications faster.”

This first sneak preview showcases developer and team productivity enhancements that will be made possible with the new release, along with enhancements to the IDE and new tool chain, modeling and debugging capabilities. These new core productivity enhancements will enable developers to better manage their source code and, ultimately, streamline the development process.

New RAD Studio XE features revealed in this first preview include:

• Subversion version control integration to help manage source code revisions in the Delphi, C++Builder and Delphi Prism IDEs
• Rapid PHP web development added to RAD Studio with RadPHP XE
• New debugging features for Delphi, C++Builder and RadPHP XE
• Modeling enhancements in Delphi XE, including enhanced code generation from the modeler for higher quality code, as well as the ability to generate sequence diagrams from methods

“Developers are constantly challenged to keep productivity high, yet they’re also required to manage source code revisions for themselves and within their team,” said Michael Swindell, senior vice president of marketing and product management for Embarcadero Technologies. “These new capabilities offer very specific benefits that will enable developers to save time on coding, increase productivity and focus on developing quality applications faster.”

The RAD Studio XE release also marks the extension of the new XE brand and capability set to Embarcadero’s application development line, including RAD Studio and each standalone tool in the suite. XE products are distinguished by three key components: support for multiple database types and deployment environments; Embarcadero® ToolCloud technology for centralized license management and on-demand tool access; and an easy upgrade path to Embarcadero® All-Access™ XE.

As with all Embarcadero tools, the RAD Studio XE suite of products will also be available via the Embarcadero All-Access toolbox.

Throughout August, Embarcadero will be showcasing sneak previews to show what’s in store for RAD Studio XE with its new versions of Delphi XE, C++Builder XE, Delphi Prism XE and, now, RadPHP XE.

To view the latest sneak peek blogs and videos on RAD Studio XE, visit http://www.embarcadero.com/rad-studio-xe-preview.

About Embarcadero Technologies

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of award-winning tools for application developers and database professionals so they can design systems right, build them faster and run them better, regardless of their platform or programming language. Ninety of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcadero products to increase productivity, reduce costs, simplify change management and compliance and accelerate innovation. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices located around the world. Embarcadero is online at www.embarcadero.com.

Embarcadero, the Embarcadero Technologies logos and all other Embarcadero Technologies product or service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Survey: Majority of App Developers on Windows 7 Bandwagon

Popularity of touch technologies is greatest driver, according to an industry survey by Embarcadero

Spurred in part by the rising popularity of Windows 7 features like Touch and Multi-Touch technology, more software developers are developing applications for Windows 7, according to a recent survey conducted by Embarcadero Technologies.

"54% of developers said they are currently developing applications for Windows 7, and another 25% said they plan to start developing them in the next year"

More than half of the software developers surveyed – 54% – indicated that they are currently developing applications for Windows 7 and another 25% said they plan to start developing Windows 7 applications in the next year. Of those who are currently developing for Windows 7, the majority said they started within the past six months to one year. Meanwhile, 10% said they have no plans to develop Windows 7 applications.

Enthusiasm for Windows 7 development is being driven, in part, by developers’ eagerness to include popular features like Touch, Multi-touch and enhanced graphics into their software. When asked which Windows 7 features they are most excited about integrating into their applications, nearly 40% said Touch, Multi-touch and gestures input, while 27% said enhanced graphics, animations and Windows Imaging Component. and 24% said ribbon controls. Respondents were more lukewarm about multimedia features such as Windows Live Movie Maker and Internet TV.

“The popularity of devices like the iPhone and iPad have helped drive mainstream acceptance of Touch-based technologies. This popularity transcends into the developer community and I doubt we’ll see it abate anytime soon,” said Michael Rozlog, product manager for Delphi Solutions at Embarcadero.

Not surprisingly, 34% of respondents indicated that the biggest challenge with developing Windows 7 applications is being able to support users on older versions of Windows. Microsoft is ending support for Windows XP in April 2014 and many analysts are encouraging enterprises and consumers to switch to Windows 7 by the end of 2012, although their urging has been met with some reluctance. That speaks to the next biggest challenge cited – more than 15% of developers said they are waiting for more organizations to adopt Windows 7 to make it worth their while.

Other insights from the survey include:

•     The majority plan to develop Windows 7 desktop applications first, with database applications second on the list, followed by utilities/tools
•     Small business applications are higher on the priority list than enterprise applications
•     More than 10% said their biggest Windows 7 development challenge is having to learn something new
•     Only 3% of respondents cited Windows 7 stability and performance as a development challenge

The survey was conducted in May 2010 by Embarcadero Technologies. The 606 respondents were a mixture of developers, architects and analysts.

About Embarcadero Technologies Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of award-winning tools for application developers and database professionals so they can design systems right, build them faster and run them better, regardless of their platform or programming language. Ninety of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcadero products to increase productivity, reduce costs, simplify change management and compliance and accelerate innovation. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices located around the world. Embarcadero is online at www.embarcadero.com.

Embarcadero, the Embarcadero Technologies logos and all other Embarcadero Technologies product or service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Delphi development offered for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Embarcadero will offer next month an upgrade to its Delphi Prism platform, enabling Object Pascal-based development in Microsoft’s newly shipping Visual Studio 2010 IDE.

Delphi Prism 2011 is built on top of the Visual Studio shell and can be used either with Visual Studio 2010 or independently. The Visual Studio shell features the Visual Studio IDE framework as well as editors and editors.

"Delphi Prism 2011 is actually our .Net solution for the Delphi and .Net world," said Mike Rozlog, Embarcadero product manager for Delphi, which was once a Borland technology. Embarcadero acquired the former Borland development tools unit CodeGear in 2008.

Object Pascal is "considered to be one of the easiest languages to learn," in the .Net space, Rozlog said.

"Object Pascal in the .Net environment can take advantage of everything .Net has to offer," Rozlog said. Developers can build .Net. ASP.Net and data-driven applications.

When coupled with Visual Studio 2010, Delphi developers can take advantage of everything in Microsoft’s software development platform, including capabilities for Silverlight; .Net Framework 4, and Windows Presentation Foundation, according to Embarcadero. Parallel processing enhancements in .Net Framework 4 are supported.

Developers also can build for Windows 7 and the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform.

Also featured are a redesigned IDE with improved usability and enhanced code editing.

Besides .Net 4 support and Visual Studio 2010 integration, the 2011 version of Delphi Prism features enhancements for aspect-oriented programming as well as language enhancements. An obfuscator is featured to make it more difficult to reverse-engineer code, Rozlog said. Developers also can take C# code and have it automatically converted to Prism code.

Delphi Prism 2011 offers improved connectivity to InterBase and Blackfish SQL databases. Developers also can build clients in .Net for the Delphi DataSnap application server.

Also featured with Delphi Prism 2011 is Novell’s MonoDevelop IDE for building a Mono-based application development via Delphi. Mono is a runtime that allows developers to use .Net-based skills to build applications for platforms including Linux and Mac OS.

Embarcadero did not have information available Tuesday about the price of Delphi Prism 2011. The company plans to offer a new version of Delphi, for Win32 development, probably in the second half of this year.

This article, "Delphi development offered for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in business technology news and get a digest of the key stories each day in the InfoWorld Daily newsletter and on your mobile device at infoworldmobile.com.

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REST and SOAP: When Should I Use Each (or Both)?

Web developers today have a myriad of technologies they can choose from; everything from simplified database access, to easy wrapping of existing middleware services, to a plethora of interesting client side software. All of these products and tools are there to give web developers the ability to create the best web-based applications in the shortest amount of time.

However, having a massive set of possible software solutions is one challenge, picking the specific approach for specific parts of the web applications is another, and web developers today have to juggle many of these decisions with changing standards or approaches seemingly appearing daily.

Take for example, the two approaches for interfacing to the web with web services, namely SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and REST (Representational State Transfer). Both approaches work, both have advantages and disadvantages to interfacing to web services, but it is up to the web developer to make the decision of which approach may be best for each particular case.

By now, most developers have at least, from a periphery, been exposed to the REST approach, which uses a standard URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) that makes a call to a web service like http/https://www.mycompany.com/program/method?Parameters=xx. The approach is very simple to understand and can be executed on really any client or server that has HTTP/HTTPS support. The command can execute using the HTTP Get method. So developers that use this approach, cite the ease of development, use of the existing web infrastructure, and little learning overhead as key advantages to the style.

However SOAP, the granddaddy of all web services interfaces, is not going away anytime soon, and in fact with the introduction of SOAP 1.2 has fixed many of the perceived short-comings of the technology and pushing it to new levels of both adoption and ease-of-use. It should also be noted that the acronym SOAP no longer stands for Simple Object Access Protocol as of the 1.2 specification from the W3C organization; it is now just the name of the specification.

Now keep in mind that using SOAP 1.2 has some additional overhead that is not found in the REST approach, but that overhead also has advantages. First, SOAP relies on XML (Extensible Markup Language) in three ways; the Envelope – that defines what is in the message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for datatypes, and finally the layout of the procedure calls and responses gathered. This envelope is sent via a transport (HTTP/HTTPS), and an RPC (Remote Procedure Call) is executed and the envelope is returned with information in a XML formatted document.

It is important to note that one of the advantages of SOAP is the use of the “generic” transport. While REST today uses HTTP/HTTPS, SOAP can use almost any transport to send the request, using everything from the afore mentioned to SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and even JMS (Java Messaging Service). However, one perceived disadvantage is the use of XML because of the verboseness of it and the time it takes to parse.

However, the good news for web developers is that both technologies are very viable in today’s market. Both REST and SOAP can solve a huge number of web problems and challenges, and in many cases each can be made to do the developers bidding, which means they can work across the domain.

But the untold story is that both technologies can be mixed and matched. REST is very easy to understand and is extremely approachable, but does lack standards and is considered an architectural approach. In comparison, SOAP is an industry standard with a well-defined protocol and a set of well-established rules to be implemented, and it has been used in systems both big and small.

So this means areas that REST works really well for are:

• Limited bandwidth and resources; remember the return structure is really in any format (developer defined). Plus, any browser can be used because the REST approach uses the standard GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE verbs. Again, remember that REST can also use the XMLHttpRequest object that most modern browsers support today, which adds an extra bonus of AJAX.
• Totally stateless operations; if an operation needs to be continued, then REST is not the best approach and SOAP may fit it better. However, if you need stateless CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) operations, then REST is it.
• Caching situations; if the information can be cached because of the totally stateless operation of the REST approach, this is perfect.

That covers a lot of solutions in the above three. So why would I even consider SOAP? Again, SOAP is fairly mature and well-defined and does come with a complete specification. The REST approach is just that, an approach and is wide open for development, so if you have the following then SOAP is a great solution:

• Asynchronous processing and invocation; if your application needs a guaranteed level of reliability and security then SOAP 1.2 offers additional standards to ensure this type of operation. Things like WSRM – WS-Reliable Messaging.
• Formal contracts; if both sides (provider and consumer) have to agree on the exchange format then SOAP 1.2 gives the rigid specifications for this type of interaction.
• Stateful operations; if the application needs contextual information and conversational state management then SOAP 1.2 has the additional specification in the WS* structure to support those things (Security, Transactions, Coordination, etc). Comparatively, the REST approach would make the developers build this custom plumbing.

As shown above, each technology approach has their uses. They both have underlying issues around security, transport layers, and the like, but they both can get the job done and in many cases, they each bring something to the web. So for this argument, the best rule, is the rule of flexibility, because no matter what the problem at least in today’s web development world, web developers have great solutions using either of these protocols.

About the Author

Mike Rozlog is the senior director of products for Embarcadero Technologies, a database tools and developer software company . In this role, he is focused on ensuring the developer focused products being created by Embarcadero meet the expectations of developers around the world. Much of his time is dedicated to discussing and explaining the technical and business aspects of Embarcadero’s products and services to analysts and other audiences worldwide. Mike was formerly with CodeGear, a developer tools group that was acquired by Embarcadero in 2008. Previously, he spent more than eight years working for Borland in a number of positions, including a primary role as Chief Technical Architect. A reputed author, Mike has been published numerous times. His latest collaboration is Mastering JBuilder from John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

dbExpress Database Access Components in Delphi – Delphi 101

Mastering Database Application Development

Watch online video tutorials to get a quick start and useful tips.  Learn from the Expert and see how to rapidly build high-performance database applications with Delphi, C++Builder, Delphi Prism and RAD Studio. 

 

dbExpress Database Access Components in Delphi – Delphi 101

This tutorial video describes how to use the dbExpress database access components in Delphi and RAD Studio along with a demonstration of rapidly building a database application with the Firebird database.

 

About the Presenter

Mike Rozlog
Product Manager of Delphi Solutions at Embarcadero Technologies

Mike Rozlog is the Product Manager of Delphi Solutions for Embarcadero Technologies. In this role, he is focused on ensuring the family of Delphi developer products being created by Embarcadero meets the expectations of developers around the world. Much of his time is dedicated to discussing and explaining the technical and business aspects of Embarcadero’s products and services to analysts and other audiences worldwide. Mike was formerly with CodeGear, a developer tools group that was acquired by Embarcadero in 2008. Previously, he spent more than eight years working for Borland in a number of positions, including a primary role as Chief Technical Architect. A reputed author, Mike has been published numerous times. His latest collaboration is Mastering JBuilder from John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Delphi 101: Database Access Methods in Delphi

Mastering Database Application Development

Watch online video tutorials to get a quick start and useful tips.  Learn from the Expert and see how to rapidly build high-performance database applications with Delphi, C++Builder, Delphi Prism and RAD Studio. 

Delphi 101: Database Access Methods in Delphi

This tutorial video describes the database access options in Delphi and C++Builder and helps you select the best approach for your database projects. 

 

 

About the Presenter

Mike Rozlog
Product Manager of Delphi Solutions at Embarcadero Technologies

Mike Rozlog is the Product Manager of Delphi Solutions for Embarcadero Technologies. In this role, he is focused on ensuring the family of Delphi developer products being created by Embarcadero meets the expectations of developers around the world. Much of his time is dedicated to discussing and explaining the technical and business aspects of Embarcadero’s products and services to analysts and other audiences worldwide. Mike was formerly with CodeGear, a developer tools group that was acquired by Embarcadero in 2008. Previously, he spent more than eight years working for Borland in a number of positions, including a primary role as Chief Technical Architect. A reputed author, Mike has been published numerous times. His latest collaboration is Mastering JBuilder from John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Embarcadero’s David Intersimone to Present at Evans Data Developer Relations Conference

 

SAN FRANCISCO – March 11, 2010 — Embarcadero Technologies’ David Intersimone, vice president of developer relations and chief evangelist, will present at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference being held March 15 and 16 in San Jose, Calif.

Intersimone will present, “Developer Relations – The Next Generation,” on March 15 from 3:20 – 4 p.m. PDT. This session will discuss the never-ending challenge to grow a worldwide developer community, including continuing to personally interact with members, building online systems that allow collaboration with developers, and creating new marketing avenues using eDMs, RSS feeds and alternative channels such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Live Webinars, 24-hour online marathons and others.

 

You might be wondering “WHAT IS the Evan Data Developer Relations Conference”  …?

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 March 15 – 16, 2010 – DoubleTree Hotel – San Jose, California

In an event unlike any other, developer relations experts from leading companies in the software, telecom and Web 2.0 markets will come together to discuss best practices and reveal the techniques behind their success!

Evans Data is pleased to announce the 6th Annual Evans Data Developer Relations Conference to be held March 15 – March 16, 2010 at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, Ca.

Get expert advice from visionary keynote speakers, gain insight from leading authorities in two exceptional tracks, network and compare notes with colleagues in other companies, share your developer program experiences, and form partnerships in this one-of-a-kind, two-day event.

Highlights include:

• Keynotes delivered by top developer relations executives
• Tracks to meet your specific needs:
  • Business Track
  • Marketing Track
• Interactive round table discussion
• Live on-stage developer focus group
• Networking opportunities galore:
  • Morning & afternoon breaks
  • Birds-of-a-feather luncheons
  • VIP evening cocktail reception

Who will attend:

• VPs, CTOs, and CEOs
• Business Development Managers & Directors
• Managers & Directors of Developer Programs
• Product Marketing Managers & Directors
• Marketing Managers
• Technology & Developer Evangelists
• Products Managers
• Research Managers
• Corporate Communications Managers
• Heads of Developer Marketing
• ANYONE who deals with developers!

We have two rich tracks to choose sessions from in addition to nine powerful keynotes:

1. The Business of Developer Relations which will explore the issues of measuring program ROI, the connection between developer programs and company revenue, budgeting for basic developer programs/costs of developer programs, how to run/get organization’s commitment of internal resources, and more.

2. Marketing to Developers which will examine new techniques for recruiting developers into your program, awareness tactics, community loyalty building programs, legal/privacy and global privacy considerations, conducting a privacy audit, internationalizing a US-based developer relations program, and more.

The conference will be held March 15-March 16, 2010 at the newly remodeled DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, CA. We will have a variety of sessions within the three tracks, plus keynotes to address the general assembly, and onstage developer focus group, and an open forum on Developer Programs In and Out of the Cloud moderated by a developer relations specialist. In addition, Evans Data will share highlights from is annual Developer Relations Programs Survey Report of over 400 developers, and a special analysis of trends that will shape the technology landscape.

Whether you are starting a new developer relations program or building on a current one, you deserve all of the help you can get – and this is the place to get it!

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About the Speaker
David Intersimone (known to many as David I.) is a passionate and innovative software industry veteran-often referred to as a developer icon who extols and educates the world on Embarcadero developer programs and runs the rampant online developer community. He shares his visions as an active member of the industry speaking circuit and is tapped as an expert source by the media. He is a long-standing champion of software developers and works to ensure that their needs are folded into Embarcadero’s strategic product plans. Before Embarcadero, David spent more than 20 years with Borland in various evangelism, engineering and development capacities, including creating the company’s develop relations program. He previously served as director of product services for Softsel Computer Products Inc. (now Merisel). David holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, California.

About Embarcadero Technologies
Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of award-winning tools for application developers and database professionals so they can design systems right, build them faster and run them better, regardless of their platform or programming language. Ninety of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcadero products to increase productivity, reduce costs, simplify change management and compliance and accelerate innovation. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices located around the world. Embarcadero is online at www.embarcadero.com.

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Media Relations

Chase Communications

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Join Marco Cantù for an exclusive technical webinar Learn how to create REST Clients & Servers

Let Marco Cantù show you how to get the most from RAD Studio 2010 with Representational State Transfer (REST) – a new architecture for Web services that is having a significant impact on the industry. Join Marco as he delves into the technologies involved in REST from the Delphi perspective.

Live Web Seminar – Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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Topics covered in this webinar include:

• The concepts behind Representational State Transfer

• REST technologies and Delphi

• Creating Delphi REST clients that interface with RSS feeds, maps, and Twitter

• Data-oriented REST servers

Additional REST resources are also available on the Embarcadero Web site.

More About Marco:
Marco Cantù is the author of the best-selling Mastering Delphi series and in the recent years he has self-published books on the latest versions of Delphi, including his Delphi 2010 handbook. Beside training and consulting on Delphi, Marco is available for consulting on Web architectures and the integration of Delphi projects. You can read Marco’s blog at http://blog.marcocantu.com, follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/marcocantu, and contact him on marco.cantu@gmail.com.

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Embarcadero Technologies Hosts Borland Memorabilia Auction for Haiti recovery

SCOTTS VALLEY — If you are secretly pining over old Borland memorabilia — the classic Pascal 3.0 software still in its original shrink wrap, a Borland varsity letter jacket once reserved for executives or a shiny yellow bumper sticker proclaiming that "Delphi Developers Do It Faster" — this is your chance to bid in an unusual auction and have your purchase support recovery efforts in Haiti.

The Scotts Valley-based former Borland crew that now works as part of Embarcadero Technologies has placed prized Borland-related possessions on eBay as part of a fundraiser. They hope to raise thousands of dollars for the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund when the auction closes Sunday at 6 p.m.

"I’m blown away that the Delphi bumper sticker has bidding up to $99," said Anders Ohlsson, a staff engineer with Embarcadero Technologies who has spearheaded the auction effort.

By Thursday, the current bid value on 69 posted items was $3,100. The items include company T-shirts and caps, a wine bottle opener and numerous first shipments of early technology. A paper bill of 500 Borland Bucks that features company founder Philippe Kahn’s image had a $1 bid.

New items will still be posted, Ohlsson said, confirming that one item included lunch anywhere in the world with David Intersimone, former Borland vice president of developer relations and chief evangelist who is now with Embarcadero Technologies. Ohlsson also hopes to post memorabilia signed by some of the big names in Borland’s early days and, he says that colleagues are offering up new items every day.

The effort is also a way to clean out the office in preparation for a move in spring of about 85 employees currently located in the Enterprise Technology Centre to a new office across the highway at the Granite Creek Business Center. In 2008, Embarcadero Technologies, a San Francisco global company that makes tools for application developers and database professionals, bought Code Gear, a Borland spin-off. The move is another transition for former Borland folks who have maintained a devoted developer fan base through numerous corporate incarnations.

"All this memorabilia has value to people," Ohlsson said. "We have one of the greatest communities out there of developers. Why not do two things at once? I can’t think of any better cause than raising money and supporting Haitian relief at this time."

Specifics about each item can be found on employee blogs such as the story behind Nick Hodges T-shirt which he won at a conference by answering correctly the question: What day was Delphi 1 released? Valentine’s 1995.

By Thursday, there were still several items without first bids, such as a Borland crystal paper weight and several multi-year conference button sets. Chris Hesik, a software engineer, had yet to receive bids on his Inprise championship team signed softball that conjures up memories of a September day in 2000 when the Delphi and C++ team somehow managed to beat the sales group in a heated softball battle. Hesik is also throwing in a receipt from the victors’ beer and pizza from Felton Round Table.

Bidding, however, was hot for a mystery "Bag Of Buyer’s Choice of Borland Stuff!"

Please visit the Borland memorabilia auction!

By JENNIFER PITTMAN – jrpittman@comcast.net

Posted: 02/06/2010 01:30:08 AM PST

Embarcadero Webinar: Creating Multi-Tier DataSnap Applications with Delphi 2010

SAN FRANCISCO – Feb. 5, 2010 – Join Embarcadero’s David Intersimone on Wednesday, February 10, as he explains how to create a DataSnap server with Delphi and connect to it from multiple clients built in Delphi, C++Builder and Delphi Prism.

While other RAD tools limit you to a specific database or architecture, or rely on “universal” data connectivity options, Delphi’s openness provides the flexibility and performance needed to build superior real-world applications. DataSnap with JSON, REST, HTTP, TCP/IP and XML support provides client/server and multi-tier connectivity with virtually any other system.

To register for this webinar, visit www.embarcadero.com/rad-in-action/datasnap.

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Get a hands-on approach to the power and flexibility of DataSnap in RAD Studio 2010. From getting your first server and client applications going through to working with .NET as well as using Internet protocols and callbacks, Dr. Bob leads you in easy steps to get fast and powerful results. Download this unique and FREE white paper here www.embarcadero.com/rad-in-action/datasnap.

Watch online DataSnap tutorials:
1. Building DataSnap servers
2. Adding Web Broker targets
3. Adding custom server methods
4. HTTP authentication
5. Using DataSnap data filters

About the Speaker
David Intersimone (known to many as David I.) is a passionate and innovative software industry veteran-often referred to as a developer icon who extols and educates the world on Embarcadero developer programs and runs the rampant online developer community. He shares his visions as an active member of the industry speaking circuit and is tapped as an expert source by the media. He is a long-standing champion of software developers and works to ensure that their needs are folded into Embarcadero’s strategic product plans. Before Embarcadero, David spent more than 20 years with Borland in various evangelism, engineering and development capacities, including creating the company’s develop relations program. He previously served as director of product services for Softsel Computer Products Inc. (now Merisel). David holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, California.

About Embarcadero Technologies
Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of award-winning tools for application developers and database professionals so they can design systems right, build them faster and run them better, regardless of their platform or programming language. Ninety of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcadero products to increase productivity, reduce costs, simplify change management and compliance and accelerate innovation. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices located around the world. Embarcadero is online at www.embarcadero.com.

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