in reply to restful web service server

Check out Catalyst. There are tutorials that include REST.

As the other reply indicates, the server that hosts it doesn't matter since the framework is abstracted from it.

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Re^2: restful web service server
by westy032001 (Novice) on May 12, 2011 at 11:08 UTC
    thanks for the responses both
    I had wondered if using a framework was the best way to go or if people tended to roll there own.
    I had a look at dancer, i will look at catalyst as well cheers.
    Is there a way of running the perl resources in an existing perl environment rather than a perl env being created, the code run then thrown away which is how i understand cgi works.
    thanks.
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      I find Catalyst to be more "glue logic" and "abstraction layer" and gives me all the benefit of rolling my own: I choose what to use! It just provides a nice way to tie everything together, and a cool testing environment.

      Dancer is more "use what they provided".

      I think you are asking about not running the script every time a request comes in, but leaving it running and handling requests. For sure; modperl is the granddaddy of that. "fastcgi" is the current approach. All that is explained in Catalyst tutorials.

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