[Dahut-pm] questions about Catalyst

[Matt Sergeant]

On 20 Jun 2005, at 07:45, Robin Berjon wrote:

> has anyone here looked into Catalyst? I toyed a bit with it this
> week-end and it seems quite nice, and in line with a bunch of stuff 
> that
> this gang's been interested in.
>
> So I've been wondering, have there been any thoughts along the lines of
> porting/merging SAWA to/into it? And then just have AxKit2 run on top 
> of it?
>
> It has all sorts of goodies about it (the least of which isn't the fact
> that it runs on many servers, and it has this really neat built-in
> server you can use for development -- getting the Hello World app up 
> and
> running took all of two minutes) and it looks like everything AxKit and
> SAWA need are there, modulo the XML goodness.

One of the things Catalyst (and Maypole and Ruby on Rails, etc) push is 
that the database is just an object storage mechanism. I think a 
database is so much more than that, and it can be very dangerous to 
just treat it as an Object dump.

Great for simple apps, but does it scale up (not in terms of 
performance, but in terms of complexity).