Hey everyone, Seems to me if we want something like j2ee for perl, what we want is a set of frameworks with a consistant api available via a distributed deployment platform, such as SOAP or XML-RPC. That way, all someone has to do is set up a directory server which goes out and finds all the available objects and presents an easy method to find use them.
We really need to decide what those frameworks will be. For example, a Security framework, or a messenging framework. I think the idea about creating wrappers for prexisting modules in order to commonize the API is a good one. Here's a list of the frameworks I've worked on with my group. We have developers that work in Perl, pl/sql and Java here at my company, so we created a frameworks group to make sure no one reinvents the wheel unneccessarily. Security Database Access Auditing Exception and Error tracking Workflow Management Configuration Internationalization Additionally, we hace a meta group to make sure the APIs are consistant with our rules. If we get a list of all the frameworks we want to concentrate on, we can then break up into groups to work on requirements for each one. We should probable keep the list short, just the bare stuff we all use and need everyday. Also, we need a website to store all these docs. Any ideas? Peace, or Not? John
