Product Features - Delphi 5
High productivity development for the Internet
Delphi 5 includes a number of enhancements that allow organizations to rapidly
extend existing systems and build new systems for the Internet, including:
- Internet Express, which speeds Internet and XML development, by
simplifying Data Distribution and optimizing Data Exchange. This lets
developers build high-speed, flexible, and scalable web server
applications that quickly deliver dynamic data to browser clients.
- HTML 4 support, to create full featured Dynamic Thin-clients for the web
and allow rapid deployment to the Internet with full-featured and
responsive client applications.
- MIDAS 3, which handles the demands of Internet based applications. MIDAS
3 builds on the high-productivity of Delphi 5 to deliver applications that
scale as the volume of transactions and numbers of end-users grow.
Developers that build Internet applications can easily handle large
numbers of web browser clients or Windows clients on the Internet or
Intranet. MIDAS leverages all the distributed computing standards such as
HTTP, CORBA, COM and MTS to smooth the integration of existing systems
with e-commerce applications.
High Productivity Database Development
In order to take advantage of the newest technology standards in the area of
database development, Delphi 5 includes the following:
- ADOExpress, for fast access to all types of information. Developers gain
rapid access to the universe of data that their end-users need to make
better business decisions using Microsoft's ActiveX Data Object and OLEDB
technology. Combined with Delphi's open data component architecture,
programmers can quickly build systems that take business data to their
customers on the Internet, to their end-users and to their entire supply
chain.
- InterBase Express. VARs, Systems Integrators and ISVs can build and
rapidly deploy high-productivity, high performance applications with
InterBase, a fast, low-maintenance, small-footprint relational database.
High productivity for the Enterprise
Delphi 5 includes a number of enhancements that can increase the productivity
of teams developing applications in larger corporations, including:
- TeamSource, a new tool that lets development teams manage changes to
source code. TeamSource builds on existing source code management and
versioning engines (such as PVCS) and extends them with a highly
productive workflow model that simplifies the management of source code
for large distributed teams.
- Borland Translation Suite, to quickly internationalize or localize
applications for new languages and cultures.
High productivity for the Developer
Delphi 5 reduces development cycle time and increases programmer productivity
with the following:
- Integrated development environment (IDE) enhancements, including a
DataModule Designer with Tree and Data Diagram View to gain a
comprehensive understanding of the data in applications; Project-Wide
browsing to better understand code and to navigate the VCL (visual
component library); To Do lists for keeping development on schedule; and
new control panel and console application wizards.
- Advanced debugging tools, including remote debugging for distributed
development (COM and CORBA); multi-process and cross-process debugging;
Breakpoint ToolTips, Actions and Groups for faster navigation; FPU View
for low-level debugging and streamlined usability throughout.
What features are in the different versions of Delphi 5
All of the features described above are included in Delphi 5 Enterprise. For
features included in the Standard and Professional editions of Delphi see the detailed
matrix.
