Learn to build web applications with Catalyst, the popular open source web framework based on the Perl programming language. The Definitive Guide to Catalyst: Writing Extendable, Scalable, and Maintainable Perl–Based Web Applications is a definitive guide to Catalyst version 5.8, which will be released in 2009. This book contains

* Training materials for new and experience programmers.
* Worked examples and cookbook–style recipes of common web application programming tasks
* Fundamentals of web application design and best–practice application style


What you’ll learn

* Write web applications with Catalyst and Perl.
* Design for extendability and code reuse.
* Understand deployment options for high– and low–traffic sites.
* Use DBIx::Class, Moose, and Template Toolkit.
* Understand the Catalyst dispatcher and request cycle.
* Deal with common web programming requirements: authentication and authorization, web services, sending e–mail, serving streaming media.


Who is this book for?

The primary audience for this book is existing Perl programmers who want more information on writing robust maintainable and extendable web applications. This group is comprised of four subgroups:

* Experienced perl programmers wanting to update their web programming skills (for example, CGI.pm, mod_perl, and Mason programmers)
* Intermediate/Late beginner programmers wanting to learn rapid, extendable, maintainable web programming techniques in Perl
* System administrators and other non–web users of Perl (e.g., bioinformatics workers) who want to learn modern Perl web development techniques
* Existing catalyst programmers who want to learn about best practices for catalyst development

This book is also for programmers who want to understand web application design and development more thoroughly.