Gordon, thanks for this, it's a useful perspective I hadn't thought about. I'm trying to clear a day to spend on the docs Real Soon Now.
Cheers, d. On 11/20/05, Gordon Haverland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have had a copy of the Jakarta Struts Cookbook for a while > (ostensibly for a book review). This note is encouraged by my > just about being finished reading the cookbook for the review. > > I had a desire to develop a CGI (and potentially mod-perl) > application quite a while ago. (Project still not finished, > argh! :-)) Being somewhat familiar with perl, I looked to CPAN > for modules. > > I think I started with CGI::Builder, but it might have been > CGI::Application. In both cases, it was quickly apparent that > there just wasn't enough understandable documentation for me to > develop something. > > Next try was Maypole. I got part of my idea working with Maypole, > but started running into problems when I had to extend the > software for my ideas on user authentication/authorisation/roles. > I still believe that in the long run, I will end up running > Maypole with this idea. However, for the near term I just backed > off a level to get something working with Class::DBI and TT. > > But, I think you have a few documentation needs. I see attempts > at making POD documentation to accompany Maypole and its > associated modules on this list quite a bit. I think there is > the beginnings of a document (or many) for helping perl oriented > people to produce a site using Maypole. I think you do need a > document that approaches Maypole from the Java/Struts point of > view. The Java community is fairly large, and from what I see of > Struts in the book, I think there might be applications where > someone started with Struts, but is going to need to move to > perl/Maypole to get things working (better). I don't know enough > about Ruby/Rails to know if something similar is needed from > their point of view. > > Another orientation for documentation, is security. Security of > the CGI or mod-perl application, as well as the (backend) dbase > which is wedded to the web application. > > I hope this is a worthwhile point to bring up. But in any event, > I'll go back to lurking for a while. :-) > > Gord > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today > Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam > for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Maypole-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/maypole-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv28&alloc_id845&op=click _______________________________________________ Maypole-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/maypole-users
