In my last article “Jwscl and FreeAndNil” there were some great comments on the source design. Oliver told me to use a guarded memory page so the memory is always invalid. With his information I wrote a source code that creates a pointer which always triggers an access violation.

There is a lot of talking about the usage of FreeAndNil in destructors. I’ve never thought about it before so I used it quite often even in destructors. Although I don’t use it as a universal remedy function, it still seems to be a bad design: a thought shared by many leading Delphi experts.  Thus [...]

I had some free time that I used to put together all the features JWSCL provides currently. There are some more features that are implemented by other tool classes or functions that I left out in favor of a good overview. A complete overview of all classes, methods and more gives you the documentation at [...]

I had some trouble writing these lines because usually I do not want to publish criticism. But Oliver told me that it would be a good idea and I don’t want to disagree .

I had some trouble with this rather complicated COM structure called ACTRL_ACCESS. So I post a diagram to show its design. Otherwise it would be a pity to leave it on my private hard drive.