Embarcadero Delphi XE

New Features

New name, new functionality

• The 2011 release of Delphi is called Delphi XE. The XE branding signifies that a product is part of the Embarcadero family of heterogeneous application and database tools.
• Delphi XE is based on Embarcadero ToolCloud technology and provides streamlined network licensing options.
• It includes free access to licences for older versions of Delphi including Delphi 2010, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2007 and Delphi 7.
• Delphi XE offers an easy upgrade path to Embarcadero All-Access.

New tools - included for free

• Build and release automation with the inclusion of FinalBuilder Embarcadero Edition.
• Powerful differencing tool with the inclusion of a special edition of Beyond Compare.
• Advanced networking and internet communication functionality with the inclusion of networking components from IP*Works.
• New performance profiling techniques with the inclusion of AQTime Standard.
• CodeSite Express logging tools and enhanced debugging for building quality applications.

Built-in Subversion integration

• Supports Subversion, the popular source code versioning system.
• Direct integration with the IDE's project manager and history manager.
• Supports all common tasks like import, update, commit and show log.
• Includes a difference and merge viewer.
• Features an Open Tools API for integrating other source control versioning systems.

New IDE productivity features

• Generate Sequence diagrams from methods in your Delphi applications.
• Code editor enhancements for searching, formatting and navigating.
• Perform command line code audits, code formatting, metrics and documentation generation.
• Save and share code formatter profiles from within the IDE so you can standardise formatting across your company.

Cloud and multi-tier enhancements

• Improved DataSnap functionality for multi-tier development with new wizards for creating server applications and client modules, support for Javascript, REST, HTTP and HTTPS, support for user roles for authentication and more.
• New components for Windows Azure make it easy to work with Windows Azure blobs, queues and tables.
• New tools to ease deployment onto Amazon's EC2 cloud infrastructure.

Please note: not all new features are available in all editions.

Benefits

• Rapid Application Development - With a powerful IDE and a comprehensive, feature packed language with an advanced debugger, Delphi XE is a true Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment. The wide selection of controls included in the Visual Component Library reduces the time and code required to create UI's and the included RAD frameworks speed up coding tasks
• Time saving IDE - Delphi XE's powerful IDE includes many time saving features to speed up development and the writing of code, including IDE Insight to quickly locate any setting, component or code template, Error Insight, Help Insight, Code Completion, Class Completion and more
• Powerful language features - The Delphi language is based on Object Pascal and is an object oriented language with a fast compiler and full Windows API access
• Comprehensive data support - Delphi XE supports all popular databases including SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Anywhere, InterBase, Firebird and more! Data access is easy to handle with the included framework that can create, read, update and delete from either visual controls or code
• Touch support - Quickly create touch enabled applications and add touch support to your existing applications. The gesture support (with multi-touch support on Windows 7) can be set up visually and only requires code on the event handlers
• Support for multiple Windows OS - Build your application once and run it in multiple versions of Windows, from Windows 7 and Vista back to Windows 2000
• Unicode support - Easily support multiple languages with full support for Unicode in your produced applications. The Unicode data and user interface support can display any language, currency or character set

Licensing

What are the different types of licences available?

A named user licence is for one individual and the named user is the only person permitted to use the product. There is no requirement to have a licence server. A network named user requires a licence server and enhances licence manageability when you have multiple users.

A concurrent user licence allows multiple individuals to use the product, but only up to the number of concurrent licenses purchased. Once that limit is exceeded, anyone else trying to access the software is denied access. Concurrent licences require a licence server - you can use either ToolCloud or FLEXnet.

What is ESD, ToolCloud and Flex?

ESD licences ('Electronic Software Download') provide you with an electronic download of the product(s) purchased. These are typically the most common type of licenses purchased.

ToolCloud and FLEX licences are used when you wish to manage your licences over a network. They help maintain a list of named users/concurrent users who can use the product.

What is Support and Maintenance?

Support and Maintenance can be purchased at the time you purchase your product or upgrade. The support and maintenance agreement gives you a year of upgrades (including major and minor upgrades) and a specified number of support incidents.

What are the limitations of the Academic products?

The Academic edition can be used only for learning in an academic or classroom environment. Educational institutions cannot use the academic version to produce software for use within their institution. Additionally most academic products are not eligible for upgrades.

Editions

Delphi XE is available in 4 separate editions:

Delphi Starter

Delphi Starter Edition is a low-cost entry-level edition of Delphi. It produces native Win32 executables, includes hundreds of components, a VCL form designer, full featured debugger and more.

The Starter Editions may be used by individuals until any revenue from sold applications or components exceeds $1,000 USD or by companies with five or fewer employees whose total annual revenue does not exceed $1,000 USD.

Delphi Professional

Delphi Professional is a low cost solution to create native Windows executables and touch screen applications, Delphi Professional supports:

• Local database support for Interbase and MySQL
• Supports VCL for the Web with a limit of 5 connections
• Visually represent code with UML code visualisation

Delphi Enterprise

Delphi Enterprise supports multiple databases and has support for building multi-tier applications. Delphi Enterprise includes everything in the Professional edition, plus:

• Database server support for Interbase, Firebird, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Informix and Sybase
• DataSnap for multi-tier application development
• VCL for the Web with no connection limit
• Complete UML support – 2 way modelling capabilities with synchronisation between code and models, multiple diagram types, documentation generation and design patterns.

Delphi Architect

The most advanced edition of Delphi, Delphi Architect is designed for creating data-intensive applications for large databases. Delphi Architect includes everything in the Professional and Enterprise editions, plus:

• ER/Studio 8.0 Developer Edition – helps to reverse engineer, understand and thus optimise databases. Generate database code from models designed in ER/Studio and create models from information extracted from databases and script files.

System Req.

Hardware Requirements

• Intel Pentium or compatible, 1.4 GHz minimum, 2GHz+ recommended
• 1GB RAM, 2GB+ recommended
• 3GB HDD space
• 750MB free HDD space for prerequisites
• DVD-ROM Drive
• 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor

Supported Operating Systems

• Microsoft Windows 7 - 32-bit or 64-bit
• Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 - 32-bit or 64-bit (requires admin rights)
• Microsoft Windows XP Home/Professional - 32-bit or 64-bit (SP2/SP3)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (SP1) or 2008 - 32-bit or 64-bit