The URL http://www.maz.org/ao/src/AO-0.30.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/I/IX/IX/AO-0.30.tar.gz size: 191574 bytes md5: 737919c28cf814f4339213d1ed608580 README snip-- AO is a servlet engine for Perl. It provides an application environment with such features as session tracking and persistence, security (authentication and authorization), simple configuration, and customizable logging. It also eventually will implement a Perl version of the (Java) Servlet API, providing applications with a well known model for application construction that abstracts the process model and deployment environment away from the developer. -- AO integrates out of the box with Apache::Session and Mason. i'm hoping others will add integration with AxKit, HTML::Template, Embperl, ASP, etc. the plugin architecture allows for us to provide even more implementations of session tracking and persistence, credential checking, role authorization, etc, or even to replace the core subsystems themselves. the adapter architecture will eventually allow us to run AO apps in either an external perl process or using today's in-process model - without modifications either way. the addition of the Servlet API will add a featureful, robust interface to the web application environment provided by the servlet engine. this is my first release of AO to the outside world. it's a pre-pre-pre-developer release; much is unfinished or in need of rework, altho i am using the engine as is for several projects today. i'm interested in feedback on both the general goals of the software as well as on its architecture and implementation. there's no mailing list, so please either send mail to me directly or to the modperl mailing list (preferred). PLEASE read the README before you do anything else. -- labor day release. huzzah!