[Pdx-pm] App Builders

[Ovid]

--- Andrew Clapp <andrew.clapp at gmail.com> wrote:

> What modules are other listers using to build large web apps in perl
> these days?

Catalyst is getting a lot of press and jobs for it show up quite a bit:
 

  http://www.catalystframework.org/.  

It also has a decent tutorial at 

 
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Manual/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Tutorial.pod
  http://tinyurl.com/yoccwr

It has a few issues, but it's pretty darned good.

Personally, I'm very interested in Jifty:

  http://jifty.org/view/HomePage

I've written a quick overview of what I found out with it:

 
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/hey_thats_pretty_jifty_er_nift.html
  http://tinyurl.com/2becar

And chromatic wrote a review of Jifty::DBI:

 
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/cpan_module_review_jiftydbi.html
  http://tinyurl.com/238fmq

Jifty needs a *lot* of work on its documentation, but I'm extremely
impressed with it.

You can also fall back on things like Maypole (mostly CRUD based) or
CGI::Application (much simpler, less powerful, but useful).

Cheers,
Ovid

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