Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I just came across RWDE (Rapid Web Development Framework) on CPAN, which I thought sounds interesting. Unfortunately all the synopsis says is:

"Subclass the RWDE::Web::AppServer module to supply your handler method based on your CGI invocation choice (SCGI or FastCGI) then call the Launch() method to start your application server."

I've done quite a bit of web development in Perl (CGI,mod_perl, TT2,Embperl,Mason,...) and Java/JSF, yet this is just a tad too concise for me :-) Can anyone elaborate on what exactly I'm supposed to do to get up and running? (some basic "Hello world" code would be very much appreciated)

The module appears to be rather new, so it may simply not be ready for prime time yet (not meant in a belittling way, just factual). And the website rwde.org linked to in the docs doesn't seem to exist (yet). So I'm wondering, is anyone using it? Does anyone have pointers to additional documentation? Thanks.

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Re: Anyone using RWDE?
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Apr 24, 2009 at 16:29 UTC

    I see tons of red flags: everything is integrated (reusing data interaction is impossible/difficult when that's the approach; it's a black box which will never be extended or reused), it's an immature framework without a regular release (last one was 7 months ago), the author has no other CPAN entries, it does global signal catching, and it has no tests.

    I give it a solid avoid completely.

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      An unexpectedly clear statement :-) Thank you for sharing your opinion.

      (In case anyone else has a different take on it, though, please do share as well.)

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Re: Anyone using RWDE?
by repellent (Priest) on Apr 25, 2009 at 00:44 UTC
    Kwalitee: not that it means much though.
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