The Definitive Guide to Catalyst

This book, by two well known members of the Catalyst community, shows Perl users how to write web applications using a modern framework based on their language of choice.

Learn to build web applications with Catalyst, the popular open source web framework based on the Perl programming language. The Definitive Guide to Catalyst: Writing Extendable, Scalable, and Maintainable PerlBased Web Applications is a definitive guide to Catalyst version 5.8. This book contains

• Training materials for new and experience programmers.
• Worked examples and cookbookstyle recipes of common web application programming tasks

• Fundamentals of web application design and bestpractice application style

  Learn to build web applications with Catalyst, the popular open-source web framework based on the Perl programming language. The Definitive Guide to Catalyst: Writing Extendable, Scalable, and Maintainable Perl-Based Web Applications is a definitive guide to Catalyst version 5.8.

  Autorentext
  Kieren Diment is a social researcher in the School of Management and Marketing, University of Wollongong, Australia, where he uses Catalyst for the collection analysis and presentation of research data. He has taken the lead in a significant portion of the Catalyst documentation including the Catalyst Advent Calendar in 2006 and 2007. His focus has been on ensuring a culture of documentation by example in the project, and ensuring that instructional documentation points to working example code wherever possible.

  Inhalt
  Introducing the Catalyst Web Application Framework.- Catalyst Setup and Background Knowledge.- Your First Catalyst Application.- Extending LolCatalyst-Lite.- Deployment.- Database Models.- The Catalyst Dispatcher.- Authentication and Authorization.- Interacting with Web Services in Your Applications.- Extending Catalyst.- Catalyst Cookbook.- The Reaction Component UI Framework.