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Intro Modern business applications frequently need to exchange data with Microsoft Excel. Whether it's generating reports, importing spreadsheet data, or creating documents from templates, Excel integration is a must-hav...

When building HTTP Servers with TMS Business frameworks - more specifically Rest/JSON servers with TMS XData - you can use the builtin authentication and authorization mechanism to protect server resources/requests. Such mechanism is actually impleme...

Updated: April 11th, 2021.One of the most important aspects of a REST API server is security. It should be mandatory that your data is encrypted while being transferred between client and server. And the “standard” way to do such encryption...

From Wikipedia: Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a mechanism that enables many resources (e.g. fonts, JavaScript, etc.) on a web page to be requested from another domain outside the domain from which the resource originated. In ...

Create documentation is boring. At least that's my opinion, and most developers I know also don't like to write it. But that's something we need to do, of course. Thus, the easiest it gets to document things, the better. Photo by Aaron Burden o...

This is part 5 of the tutorial on how to create TMS XData and TMS Sparkle servers on Linux. On Part 4, we have added Sparkle to our Apache module, preparing it to receive any modules we want to add. And in this final part we will add the TMS XData mo...

This is part 3 of the tutorial on how to create TMS XData and TMS Sparkle servers on Linux. On Part 2, we have installed PAServer and launched our first "Hello, World" console application on Linux. Here is video for part 3: Create and deploy an Apac...

Latest versions of TMS XData and TMS Sparkle have been just released with a major feature: Linux support. You can now deploy your XData/Sparkle server to Linux using Delphi 10.2 Tokyo, and in this video/blog post series, I will show you how to create...

This is part 2 of the tutorial on how to create TMS XData and TMS Sparkle servers on Linux. On Part 1, we have installed Ubuntu and connected to it from Windows. Here is video for second part: Installing PAServer on Linux and running our first "Hell...

This is part 4 of the tutorial on how to create TMS XData and TMS Sparkle servers on Linux. On Part 3, we have created and deployed our first Apache Module using WebBroker. Now we're going to add TMS Sparkle to it. Here is video for part 4: Adding T...

The latest TMS XData 1.1 version introduces a major feature: Service Operations. In addition to having your objects published as REST resources automatically, you can now add server-side logic in a very easy and straightforward way. Service operatio...