I've given a cursory look at CGI::Application and thought it was too complex for my needs. This CGI is really simple: always the same runmode, only three parameters (out of which only one is really important so far), only one line of output... perhaps if I were proficient using CGI::Application I could figure out how to use it quickly for simple scripts like this, without getting intimidated by the multi-runmode multi-stage talk.

I'm thinking about further applications. For example, I've worked on an application that did reports. Each report had between 8 and 14 parameters to choose from. Most of those were simple drop-down boxes. But, some were searches. You could have more than one searchable parameter on the screen at a time. But, you want the javascript to be simple - so you pass another parameter. That parameter is the runmode you want to use to generate the array(s). That runmode calls a set of standard functions to help it out (like as_string, etc.), but it's still different runmodes.

Alternatively, this could also serve more than one application in your company. C::A is designed not just for one web application, but to standardize how you build web applications in your company. Oh - and it works seamlessly with mod_perl. :-)

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