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Comment on Your data, how you want it, where you want it, with DataSnap 2010 by Andreano Lanusse

Andreano Lanusse — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:51:01 +0000

Luigi you really need to study DataSnap 2010. I recommend you to watch the CodeRage videos about DataSnap.

"anyone can call into your server or tamper your data"
This is not true, there is a HTTPAuthentication on the server side, so you have the control on the server side to allow or not the access for the server methods.

Also, the HTTP protocol has control of the session, so you can define a timeout, control sessions, implement load balance, failover, etc.

Also, the filters is a important part of the security layer, where you can add any filter you wanna, in other worlds OPEN ARCHITECTURE

DataSnap simplify a lot the security implementation, and also allow you to use other security layers like firewall, proxy, database encryption, etc.

Comment on Your data, how you want it, where you want it, with DataSnap 2010 by Bruce McGee

Bruce McGee — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:34:04 +0000

Thanks, David (and Bob).

I’m glad to see DataSnap getting some love and appreciate seeing documentation and tutorials to help make these more accessible. Keep up the good work.

Comment on Your data, how you want it, where you want it, with DataSnap 2010 by Luigi D. Sandon

Luigi D. Sandon — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:59:52 +0000

"Your data, where you want, how you want it ". Your right. Or better, "Your data, where anybody wants, how anybody wants it" Because there’s no security built-in, your data are easily readable by anyone and anyone can call into your server or tamper your data. More "distributed" than this is really hard to have. And don’t start with the "you can filter data" refrain - it is not enough to protect the data exchange properly, unless much more code is written (and called) before even to send the first datum. And still there would be issues.
I understand you need to sell your actual product, but next time try to think about the *real* world before designing a solution. Security is no longer optional.

Comment on Your data, how you want it, where you want it, with DataSnap 2010 by David Intersimone

David Intersimone — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:37:13 +0000

"Security is no longer optional" - with DataSnap 2010 filters, you can easily create encryption filters, call Windows Crypto API, or use another encryption library. InterBase 2009 supports encryption at many levels in the database layer. Finally, you can also use HTTPS if you have a certificate for your Web Server.

The Filters for DataSnap 2010 were provided for just the security level you mention.

Comment on RAD Studio 2010 tour around the US in November and December by David Intersimone

David Intersimone — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:51:52 +0000

"Is the tour going to venture into New England or New York?" and "Anything planned for the Seattle area?" - we are looking at additional locations depending on our budget for travel. We will also do some online versions after the tour to hit everyone who couldn’t make it to one of the other locations. Stay tuned to the landing page for the US Tour for additional dates and locations.

http://www.embarcadero.com/rad-tour-2010-free-seminar

Comment on RAD Studio 2010 tour around the US in November and December by David Intersimone

David Intersimone — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:49:13 +0000

"don’t leave out DelphiFeeds" - I would never leave out DelphiFeeds. In blog posts, I always tag the posts with the appropriate product names. I put Delphi in this post, and DelphiFeeds picks up all EDN Delphi and Embarcadero blogs that have the Delphi tag. Anders, Christine or someone else also posts on the newsgroups. And we do blasts on email from the marketing server and I also included the links in the October 2009 EDN newsletter that goes out to loads (more than 400,000) of members.

Thanks - If there are other areas, we’ll post there too.

Comment on RAD Studio 2010 tour around the US in November and December by m. Th.

m. Th. — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:07:03 +0000

…Son, it is badly needed to gather (again) the community. Did some research these days on the net - there are many very nice Delphi islands (bigger or smaller) but they are cut off from the main trunk. (Perhaps I’ll made a post on this, explaining the factors which led to this, drawbacks, as well as what we should do).

In short: In this ‘RAD Studio 2010 Tour’ push the folks to:

1. Read / subscribe delphifeeds.com
2. Read / post / subscribe here (.public.non-techincal ng)
3. (optional) subscribe to main EDN feed.

…beware, don’t leave out DelphiFeeds. The guys need others like them (ie. other users, developers) in order to have an "enjoyable" company. You are still "the company".

HTH

Comment on RAD Studio 2010 tour around the US in November and December by Mason Wheeler

Mason Wheeler — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:25:44 +0000

Anything planned for the Seattle area?

Comment on RAD Studio 2010 tour around the US in November and December by Paul T

Paul T — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:40:52 +0000

Is the tour going to venture into New England or New York?

Comment on Mansour Safai (Multiscope Debugger, Symantec Visual Cafe, M7 NitroX) passed away - a great loss for his family developers everywhere… by evden eve nakliyat

evden eve nakliyat — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:29:02 +0000

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