My discussion probably has nothing to do with what everyone thinks P5EE entails, but it is something that I see is very important. My main interest in perl is in the area of web development and deployment. While I love the flexibility mod_perl gives me, packaging and configuring a complex site is tedious. Now imagine if we have failover and loadbalancing functionality in P5EE, how much more complex will the configuration of each web/app server be?
I'd really like to see the support of ".war"-like bundles under mod_perl/Apache. For those of you unfamiliar with Java app servers, a .war file is like a .jar file, except for web applications. It bundles the configuration, libraries needed, classes and HTTP resources for the site. You deploy that application, or site, on a server by dropping the .war file in a directory. Now, this probably is more of a mod_perl change than a P5EE change, but I wanted to toss my USD$0.02 in here, since I know CIOs won't want to worry about configuration differences between application servers. -man Michael A Nachbaur
