I looked at POE a number of times over the years, but didn't have an important reason to penetrate its mysteries. Though now I realize it might have been a good idea to use POE instead of a bunch of scripts as a backend to a search engine I built along with the mod_perl I was using. This is mentioned here under "Non POE Clients".

Now however, I am trying to figure out whether to use POE or not in a wxPerl application. An article ("poeintro") I just read talks about a service paradigm which is what I want, in other words I am not sure whether it makes more sense to use POE (cooperative multitasking) or separate threads for running multiple tcp-based servers.

However, since only the main thread is supposed to update the gui in wxPerl I am thinking POE might be smart. Anybody with experience resolving such a question? At the moment (I'm reading more articles as I update my post :) I'm leaning more towards POE due to the number of modules and wheels it already provides, and the new POE::Loop::Wx.