inprise delphi 4 was released in 1998. ide came with a completely overhauled editor and became dockable. vcl added support for actionlists anchors and constraints. additional improvements were method overloading, dynamic arrays, windows 98 support, java interoperability, high performance database drivers, corba development, and microsoft backoffice support. it was the last version shipped with delphi 1 for 16 bit programming.