Lazarus Networking Components
lazarus / 38-Networking and Web Programming

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vfclists · 2010-02-10 15:27

I have come recently to Lazarus and have noticed Synapse. Lnet and
Indy as the main networking components.

Is there some overview of how they compare and which ones are more
appropriate?

Coming from Delphi, Indy would be the easiest, but I'd like to know
about the others as well.

/vfclists

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Almindor · 2010-05-06 15:16

Well, since I'm the author of lNet I'm a bit biased I guess but here
goes:

Synapse is a "non-visual" (it doesn't integrate with GUI directly)
networking lib which uses blocking sockets and (AFAIK) threads

Indy is a big project with years of development which started on
Windows/Delphi and has visual components. Internally it supports both
blocking and non-blocking although AFAIK it uses threads as well.

lNet is relatively lightweight, has GUI integration and uses non-
blocking sockets (requires a bit of event-driven development
thinking). Threading can be done with it (there's an experimental
threaded eventer to pool requests and try and get the best of multiple
cores etc.)