On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Kenneth Lee wrote:
> My ideal system would be those the designer can see the server-side
> objects and data fields in the database, and only associate them with
> the template by drag-n-drop.
> The designer doesn't sees any special tags, and doesn't have to conform
> to those "variables" with the programmer. The associations can be done by
> the programmer too, and he can also be isolated from the HTML codes.
>
> Just like those commercial application servers available on the net, but
> I think no one would choose (mod)perl as the API/platform.
> If there're any comparable large scale application server based on Perl,
> I would like to hear about that. Some would say Perl is not good as
> Java/C/C++ in doing that, but I think we can have the core written in C/C++
> and use Perl as a glue between the developer and the system.
One of the larger vendors that most people haven't heard of is
mediasurface. Their whole system is just a perl httpd server. And I've
heard that Vignette is written in Perl (or was).
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