in reply to CGI::Application & mod_perl

Are you using mod_cgi or mod_registry? Or, is this an actual mod_perl handler? If you're using mod_cgi, you don't need to restart because mod_perl isn't actually doing anything. If you're using mod_registry (or whatever it's called), you have to restart the server every time you make a change (unless, of course, you're using some sort of reload-on-demand option).

Additionally, I would do something like: 

sub setup {
    my $self = shift;
    $self->start_mode('start');
    $self->run_modes([qw(
        start test
    )]);
}

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That's more CGIApp-ish. :-)

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