[Melbourne-pm] Perl web application framework recommendations

[Scott Penrose]

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On 14/08/2004, at 7:43 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> I am looking at doing some web application development, both to keep my
> hand in on the programming side and because I have a need for a couple
> of database driven tools.
>
> I have taken a look at a variety of packages out there, and now I am
> looking for recommendations about which ones actually work *well*.
>
> So far, the three options that look worth considering are OpenInteract,
> Maypole and writing my own framework.

Also consider http://www.axkit.org/

> Also, in terms of modeling the data, one issue that I have is that I
> need to store an ordered set of objects associated with a given object.
>
> I also don't fancy writing my own database persistence layer, if I can
> at all avoid it, so I have been looking at those.
>
> So far, only Tangram seems to offer this functionality, and this is not
> well spoken of in a google search, and the lack of a home is also not
> very inspiring.
>
> Does anyone have anything helpful to offer, or especially a Class::DBI
> based solution with code, to achieve this?

Hmm.. my problem with things like Class::DBI is that OO and Relational 
are not the same paradigm.

But you are probably talking more general data persistence, which can 
optionally use a DB or similar.

If you have just your local code talking, reading/writing to this data 
storage, you should consider using a file system with directories and 
something like Storable (fastest of the serialisation code).

The performance will be far greater than any other solution.

There is two downsides though:

	* No indexes (although there are ways of doing this, eg: 
http://www.namazu.org/)
	* Not standard with other code (eg: if you want to mix Java and Perl 
accessing same data)

Scooter
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