Are there any frameworks/libraries for Delphi that come close to the functionality offered by Bold/Eco?

Question

Not sure what happened to Bold/Eco during the Borland/Codegear/Embarcadero transition but I sure miss it in the newer versions of Delphi. Anyone know of a framework that comes close?

If not, maybe you could suggest a combination of libraries and components that comes close.

Answer 1

hcOPF seems to be the only real ORM for Delphi win32, but it does not yet come close.

For UML modelling and such for Delphi win32(or C#), I recommend Model Maker.

Both tools have Delphi 2010 support.

--jeroen

Answer 2

The alternatives are list of OPFs for Delphi win32 (with a short description for each one).

I have only ever used Bold for Delphi (and still do) but I don't think any of the alternatives come even close in the feature set. And that I suppose is the key, which features are important to you ? If you don't need everything Bold provides maybe you can settle on one of the alternatives.

Alternatively, you can still use Bold, the latest release is Bold for Delphi 2006 and hope that Embarcadero eventually open sources it, or continues development. There is a constant user pressure to do something with Bold, but Embarcadero seems to handle pressure well.