P.S. about OpenLaszlo, I don't want to push you away from it as I did launch a Catalyst thread on their mailing list in May and they were quite helpful. They keep advancing it so there may even be fixes for things I wanted, for example their wiki has an api to the LPS server (which is a tomcat instance IIRC). They even said they wanted to target other languages when I mentioned what I really wanted was a catalyst based lps. At one point they were using compressed xml but then I think went to straight xml when the flash parser improved. Also one of their lead developers said he writes laszlo apps all day and just targets to clients getting info via http. I think there is a JSON interface that is used now. Also documentation seemed to be out of sync but that was because they were recommending old versions, in this thread they say use the latest snapshots instead. I was asking about writing RESTful apps with Catalyst, and was worried about not getting full functionality with the tomcat hosted Data Manager. Note a flash or browser security model is used depending on your rendering target. For flash you use a crossdomain.xml file to work with your perl app I believe.
I think this was the beginning of the perl/Catalyst thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03502.html One quote: "Second, as of 4.0.2 the XML-RPC APIs now work in both DHTML and SWF runtimes in SOLO mode -- no LPS required." (this was in June) Since I ended up not getting into laszlo then (I may again soon though) I can't tell you more and I cannot vouch for how it runs under load and so on. However it seems that rest apps are possible with SOLO. Finally there is in fact a ruby on rails laszlo plugin I haven't tried. It would be nice to have something like that for Catalyst. (not that I'm volunteering!) http://laszlo-plugin.rubyforge.org/ So _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/