[Templates] greetings!!!

[Todd W]

From: "Tom Allison" <tallison@tacocat.net>

>
> Second:  The website speaks of an Apache::Template for mod_perl but 
> implies it's still 'expiremental'.  Considering that slashcode is written 
> with this (I think) is this still true?
>

Apache::Template works well and I'd bet many people have it in production (I 
do), but be aware that it still leaves you much work to do in terms of 
building your web app framework (Sessions, Auth, Model OO Wrappers, 
Login/Logout, etc) as processing templates is only a part of building out 
your app.

My favorite frameworks are CGI::Application and Catalyst. If you are curious 
as to why those frameworks, search CPAN for Catalyst::Plugin or 
CGI::Application::Plugin and read the descriptions of the modules. After 
figuring out how to leverage the plugins, the time between design and 
business logic implementation of a typical web app averages out to a few 
weeks or even a few days.

Todd W.