Delphi has given up after Version 4.x. What now? They don't support your product so now we can't either. Any plans to make your web server a little nicer?

Answer 1

Um. I'm not sure I understand your question. It really sounds like your question should be addressed towards Borland's support team.
I haven't worked with Delphi since 1997, but I'll make a couple of observations:
It looks like Delphi's WebSnap interfaces with iWS via NSAPI. And the NSAPI in iWS 6.x is backwards compatible. So even if Borland doesn't officially support iWS 6.x it should still work fine.
If Borland is going to continue producing Delphi they will probably certify iWS 6.x soon. iWS 4.x support ends this fall and iWS still has the majority of the marketshare for the F500. Not certifying an enterprise product against iWS 6.x (especially a product that should already work unchanged) would seem to be a bad idea on Borland's part.
As far as planned improvements to iWS, of course there are planned improvements. But that doesn't seem to be the issue here. There are already lots of improvements that you would get if you upgrade from 4.x to 6.x. It's just that you are unable to take advantage of because of the Delphi tool. Another iWS release would only make your problem worse.
As far as "what now?", I'd suggest badgering Borland to support iWS 6.x. iPlanet has made it as easy as possible for ISV's. It just sounds like they have to train their support desk on iWS 6. And the only way to motivate them to do that is to have customers call them.
David