Perl, CMS, and Application Servers

peschkaj has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am in a fairly unique, and nice, position right now. I have been asked to re-develop the internal web site we use within our company. The current web site is written in ASP 3.0 and makes use of some fairly crufty slow code to get the job done.

Recently, I was tasked with re-evaluating our situation and recommending a new solution. I have looked at Zope and while it looks nice, Python's support for web services is somewhat lacking and the documentation largely consists of API descriptions and short simple tutorials.

I am also looking into using .NET and Perl as possibilities for replacing our current application. Since Perl and python will both run on practically any piece of hardware and any platform, they are logically my first choices. However, I was wondering if there are any applications with similar functionality to Zope that have been written using Perl.

I'm looking for something that provides fairly complete CMS features, but also can integrate with LDAP for user authentication, supports SOAP::Lite, and which can be extended easily and quickly.

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Re: Perl, CMS, and Application Servers by valdez (Monsignor) on Jul 24, 2003 at 14:06 UTC
Try with Bricolage, that is built on Mason. There is also a book illustrating both: Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason. Ciao, Valerio	[reply]
Re: Perl, CMS, and Application Servers by sri (Vicar) on Jul 24, 2003 at 14:32 UTC
Don't know if that monster you are searching exist. ;) But if you want to host web services I suggest to use REST or similar over SOAP. SOAP is too bloated, slow and resource consuming... As application server Apache AxKit does a wonderful job. You still have to write some parts by hand but thanks to mod_perl that won't be such a big deal.	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl, CMS, and Application Servers by jk2addict (Chaplain) on Jul 24, 2003 at 14:46 UTC
I use AxKit and I'm hooked. There is also AxKit CMS and Callisto CMS, both built around the AxKit XML App framework. Updated: s/Callosto/Callisto/	[reply]
Re: Perl, CMS, and Application Servers by naChoZ (Curate) on Jul 24, 2003 at 14:01 UTC
I'll give the obligatory plug for the Everything Engine used for Perl Monks. :) You should also check out this site. ~~ naChoZ update: another link, http://www.la-grange.net/cms	[reply]
Re: Perl, CMS, and Application Servers by zby (Vicar) on Jul 24, 2003 at 14:20 UTC
You can look at my node on Collaborative Media - most of the tools are a kind of CMS. And there is a list of CMS related discussions at the bottom of the node.	[reply]
Re: Perl, CMS, and Application Servers by chunlou (Curate) on Jul 24, 2003 at 18:45 UTC
If you haven't already checked it out, Apache Hello World Benchmarks offers useful benchmarks for various Apache's solutions.	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl, CMS, and Application Servers by wingchun_jeetkunedo (Initiate) on Jul 24, 2003 at 22:13 UTC
I have been a follower of Apache for awhile and would begin using that, I do know there are plans for increasing the integration of apache into specific linux releases ( So to compete with the Windows 2003 server IIS6 ) Apache extensions are also faster if you compile the code with all extensions at the beginning vs. adding them along the way.	[reply]
Re: Perl, CMS, and Application Servers by vek (Prior) on Jul 25, 2003 at 11:05 UTC
Bricolage would be a fine choice. Take a quick peek at Slash as well. -- vek --	[reply]