In this mini video, I gonna use the old Delphi 7 to build a mobile web frontend application for displaying "NorthWind Traders" database data coming from a mORMot server. Northwind Traders is based on sample database that ships with Microsoft Access. I use the ideas in Northwind Traders to implement this mobile version.
The end-result is mORMot data server providing data optimized for web browsers available on smartphones, like Blackberry, iPhone, Android and others. At this time of this writing, I'm going to point out two things:
a) I know barely nothing about application development for smartphones; and
b) this is my first mobile version using Delphi.
I guess many companies are creating mobile applications for their internal staff, for their customers, or both. These applications need access to data, business rules, and business processes. For architectural and security reasons these applications are typically built to access remotes services that provide the data and functionality that are required by the users.
I believe that it often makes sense to organize those services into a mobile environment built using REST, and delivering data in JSON format. Believe it or not, this is possible using the old Delphi 7. Here, Delphi 7 provides dynamic JSON to a thin javascript client.
Tags: smart phones with delphi; Delphi mORMot with Blackberry; Delphi jquery mobile; Delphi REST server;
Warleyalex from Seven Lakes, Brazil