mORMot Open Source

Hi AB,

Just installed your framework and tested some samples. Very impressed by the speed. I believe mORMot got great potential. I am still not quite clear on following points, hope you can help:

1)In DataSnap, the server and client can select data transfer protocol such as TCP or HTTP. Can mORMot does the same?

2) For most of the Web server samples , if I visit like http://localhost:8080/ it will reply with
HTTP Error 404.
On the server side, can I use the PageProducer to respond the web request? I have old project which involved several PageProducers onHTMLTag event.

3) For the example 19, it really shows the power of mORMot to extend to other direction such as JS thin client. I am not sure the high performance (speed) is the result of ORM or simply because it is non-VCL object, or by any other reason? For me, and I guess most of Delphiers too , we are used to VCL/RAD approach. It seems easier to handle/remember properties, events etc. Although Delphi IDE has the auto complete function, you have to go though many irrelevant properties when you want to find one you need. If a mORMot VCL server component available, we can easily drag and drop to start working on it. Now, I still can not find an easy way to build a standalone web server with authentication function.
I believe this is very standard demands for mORMot framework. I am wondering if you could provide such an example?

4) For me, I often query several tables by Left join, with Order by , group by filters. I am not sure ORM can do it easily. For complicated tables, there will be 30+ fields involved. If change them all into objects, there will lots of typing work. This just gives me a feeling we are going back to stone age, or in computer language DOS age. So, I am wondering if you have an example to show us that we can use our SQL statement ( from old projects) to retrieve the results either via UniDAC or your SynDB, then send the results via JSON/REST way to multi-tier client?

Overall, I believe mORMot is a good framework. The barrier for its being popular is the gap between RAD and your pure coding object approach. Programmer are lazy people as you may agree. If a WebServer complement can make a webserver ready for use without much coding, certainly people will go for it. I just hope mORMot can do sth in this direction, smooth the learning curve by borrowing some conventional RAD concepts (certainly it must be true that VCL does not affect the performance). In that case, I guess it will make more people joint you and make this stronger and more popular framework for Delphier.

Many thanks,