Re: POE vs. Net::Server

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Only being slight biased towards POE and having never used Net::Server, I'll just point out some of the benefits of a POE based approach:

POE favours a layered approach to coding. You can build up your applications in a modular fashion.
The hard work may already have been done for you, there may be a component or a filter on CPAN already.
All IO is non-blocking
You can utilise different Event loops transparently.
POE has some excellent support resources.

Have fun.

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Re^2: POE vs. Net::Server by blockcipher (Beadle) on Apr 17, 2008 at 02:42 UTC
Thank you to everyone. I didn't realize that the tutorials for POE used external libraries (I.e. filters/components), so I thought the networking was part of the core package. I'll probably try POE since I can use it for more than just a server.	[reply]

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