With a new name and a new focus on CORBA, database drivers, and Microsoft Back Office applications, Inprise/Borland Delphi is enjoying a resurgence, with a growing user base of more than 300,000 programmers who use Delphi for rapid development of enterprise computing applications. Not to rest on success, the latest version of Delphi, Version 5, adds Java interoperability and further expansion and refinement of the 3-tier application framework introduced in Delphi 4. Delphi in a Nutshell starts with the Delphi object model, covers the use of the IDE in detail, and shows how to use RTTI (Run Time Type Information) for efficient programming. Later chapters include working with the windows API and concurrent programming tips and techniques. The rest of the book is the most complete Delphi Pascal language reference available in print, detailing every language element with complete syntax, examples and methods for use. The book concludes with a look at the compiler, and compiler directives discussed in depth.