A factory. Brilliant! My CS classes must just have passed straight through my head, and out again ;)

Just to probe this question further (if I may), would this work well with mod_perl. I mean, ideally I'd like it to work across platforms with minor changes, but would these actions be loaded each time, or could they be stored in memory. I'm at a bit of a crossroad, I don't know whether to make it mod_perl specific, or allow the system some breathing space...

So back to the question at hand, would I bless the parent module (containing the Apache::Request,etc data) into the Actions/Factory module, and then just pass this to the Actions sub-packages. That way they'd have access to the Database objects I set up, and the Apache::Request handler. Does that seem about right ?

/me thinks he needs a mod_perl book

kindest regards,

>joe