[Dahut-pm] questions about Catalyst

[Robin Berjon]

Matt Sergeant wrote:
> 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.

I wasn't looking at the database parts, in fact I couldn't care less 
about that as usual :) The database part is just for funny people who 
want to do ugly things like SQL.

Maypole was really limited to CRUD, but Catalyst isn't. I really like 
the clean way in which one can have many controllers and control the 
flow of data in interesting ways.

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

I'll have to play some more, but while I think that's true of Maypole 
I'm not convinced it is of Catalyst.

-- 
Robin Berjon
   Senior Research Scientist
   Expway, http://expway.com/