RemObjects SDK for Xcode brings RemObjects SDK to native Mac and iOS developers using Objective-C, Cocoa and Xcode.

With Macs continuing to gain market share, and iPhone and iPad having established themselves as the leading mobile computing platforms, many ISV and enterprise developers are looking to extend their distributed applications to these two new platforms – and RemObjects SDK is the easy yet powerful way to do this, without sacrificing existing investment in .NET/Mono or Delphi based server technology.

Target Audience

RemObjects SDK for Xcode is targeted mainly at existing users of RO, who are looking to extend their application development to Mac or iOS clients. Whether you have existing service applications that you want to make accessible to clients using iPhones or Mac computers or want to build new solutions, the three available editions of RemObjects SDK make it really easy to build servers using .NET/Mono (deployable to Windows, Linux and Mac servers) or Delphi, and to create matching native client applications for the Mac and iPhone.

However, with its full support for SOAP, the standard access protocol for Web Services, RemObjects SDK for Xcode is also attractive to pure Xcode developers, allowing them to access existing SOAP services out there on the web – or implemented by themselves using other toolkits. Future versions will expand RemObjects SDK to also allow the creation of native servers in Objective-C.

And of course Data Abstract for Xcode makes the RO/DA combo the best option for building powerful database applications for Mac and iPhone. Data Abstract for Xcode is available now, and includes RemObjects SDK and Relativity Server.

RemObjects SDK supports Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and later, on Intel and PowerPC based Macintosh computers for both 32bit and 64bit applications, as well as iOS 3.0 and higher on both iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

It is fully ready for Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and iOS5.

On the Shoulders of Giants

Because every development platform has its unique strengths and unique paradigms for software development, we at RemObjects do not believe in blindly porting our frameworks across different platforms. Instead, just as we did when we first introduced RemObjects SDK to its second platform, Microsoft .NET, we took a look at the experience and expertise we gathered from writing the previous versions and created a brand new product, written from the ground to fit in well with its surrounding platform, but at the same time based on the architecture that made its predecessors great.

This allows RemObjects SDK for OS X to be the best version of RemObjects SDK yet, leveraging all the knowledge we have gained over the past seven years, but also learning from the mistakes that were made in previous editions.

The result is a framework that is designed from the ground up for Cocoa and Objective-C and fits in well and feels intuitive for experienced Mac developers. At the same time, it maintains the architecture and flexibility that existing RemObjects SDK users have come to love and appreciate with the framework, making sure they, whether coming from RemObjects SDK for Delphi or .NET, will feel right at home with the new edition, and will be productive from the get-go, without having to learn new concepts.

From Messages and Channels over Envelopes, Remote Services to how advanced concepts such as Authentication and Session Management work, all your existing expertise will apply.

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A RemObjects SDK app running on iPhone and Mac — RemObjects SDK in Xcode — Bonjour discovery for RO Servers