What are the current choices for Delphi Web & Web Service Development

Question

I'm toying around with Delphi. Most of my desktop development is done in .Net, and embedded systems with C. I've done some web development in RoR & Python (Django, CherryPy) I am interested in taking a crack at a project that would be a web service (REST or SOAP) with a native client and a web client.

Because I've recently been re-inspired to learn Delphi, I'm curious what the options are to build the web service and web client with Delphi. Most of the Delphi documentation is a little dated but so far I've found these choices:

• DataSnap
• WebSnap
• WebBroker
• IntraWeb
• Data Abstract and RemObjects SDK from RemObjects

I get the impression that WebSnap is dead, but the other technologies are still being developed. Is there any guidance about which technology to investigate?

p.s. I realize that Delphi isn't a wildly popular choice for web development, but I'm curious to try since I've been having fun learning the VCL.

Answer 1

Web Service Toolkit is a web services package for FPC, Lazarus and Delphi; “Web Service Toolkit” is meant to ease web services consumption and creation by FPC, Lazarus and Delphi users. Better check out from svn as the 0.5 release is actualy outdated.