🚀 go-pugleaf

In case anybody else wants to do this, I got this reply from Borland
after I emailed them:

I must admit that I don't know the meaning of "connectionless HTTP".

However, database components will surely require more than a HTTP
connection to talk to the database as driver implements their own low
level protocols. So, I don't think you will be able to use the
data-aware
components over an HTTP connection.

Your best option would be to develop a very rich web application to
access
your database through the database components running locally to your
database server. Look at WebBroker and dbExpress (replacement for the
BDE)
for instance.

If you can push your budget a bit more the Enterprise edition will
make
possible the use of a nicer alternatives:

1) You could implement an XML/SOAP layer to access this database as
this
will happily run over HTTP. Then you could have a very rich fat client
talking to your database using this XML/SOAP layer over HTTP. Look at
Bizsnap.

2) You could use Websnap to build quickly a nice web layer on top of
your
database.

Please have look at the features matrix for detailed list of the
features :
http://www.borland.com/kylix/pdf/kyl3_feamatrix.pdf

Also, you can have a look at these white papers :

http://www.borland.com/products/white_papers/pdf/understanding_borland_bizsn
ap.pdf
http://bdn.borland.com/article/images/28567/delphiwebsnapwp.pdf
http://bdn.borland.com/article/images/28556/apache_development.pdf
http://bdn.borland.com/article/images/28558/kylix_dbapps.pdf