Yes, it might do the trick just fine. Part of my unknowingness is because I'm trying to define exactly what I want -- in the Java world, there are magic libraries that people never really have to know about, and therefore relatively young or stupid Java programmers can do dangerous things (for example, Entity Beans can render useless a web service).

But with Perl, we generally see more of the guts of packages, so my eyes always get a little glazed over when I'm browsing CPAN.

Actually, Class::DBI looks like what I want. It says it creates the accessors/mutators, but it's not clear whether they're just get/set methods or (as it seems to imply) that it creates lvalue methods along the lines of 
   sub column_name : lvalue { $column_name{+shift}; }
Or am I just not reading it right?

Rob

In reply to Re^2: Perl Entity Bean by rje
in thread Perl Entity Bean by rje

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