On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > P5EE should be about getting a good solid minimum API that basically > doesn't attempt to do too much more than J2EE. At some point I believe it > is good for Perl if we throw away diversity for some key core APIs, but we > should, as much as possible, promote diversity that is part of Perl's core. > Application-level frameworks is where I would draw the line and say that I > expect as much competition as possible.
on the other hand, web applications would benefit from some standards as well. the java servlet specification mandates the web.xml file with certain contents, which requires servlet containers to provide a particular set of functionality. whether the application framework is openinteract or extropia or wombat or what have you, it would be really nice for web application DEVELOPERS to be able to rely on a single api for sessions, authen/authz, logging, etc, whether or not they use mason or tt or whatever. it would also be really nice for application DEPLOYERS to be able to rely on a single application directory structure, config file, application library location, war file format, etc. just as cpan and makemaker force us to use certain conventions in order to provide great benefit, webapp specs could potentially make application work much easier.
