What's Next?

In this chapter, you have seen how you can call functions that reside in DLLs and how to create DLLs using Delphi. After discussing dynamic libraries in general, I focused on Delphi packages, covering in particular how to place forms and other classes in a package. This is a handy technique for dividing a Delphi application into multiple executable files. While discussing packages, I explained how advanced techniques including RTTI and interfaces can be used to obtain dynamic and flexible application architectures.

I'll return to the topic of libraries that expose objects and classes when I discuss COM and OLE in Chapter 12, "From COM to COM+." For the moment, let's move to another topic related to the architecture of Delphi applications: the use of modeling tools and more examples of OOP-related techniques.