While reading a Java magazine recently, they meantioned the open-source effort Xbeans, which are a set of JavaBean classes that basically are black boxes that can be connected together; the input of one bean is transferred the next bean using XML.

Having tried something similar though not as intensive a while back in JAva, I was wondering if a similar system has been thought about for Perl. In perl, of course, this individual pieces would be called "Perl Beads", a play on the Java Bean concept.

One advantage with perl is that assuming that code can be written properly, the beads can be connected with a simple text description file, and require no extra compilation outside of perl's internal stages. And of course, there's absolutely no reason that a GUI couldn't be written that prepares this file, thus allowing the development of a 'rapid development' processor made of arbitrary Beads.

From a doable aspect, it seems rather simple, since most of the effort should be done by the individual Beads which can be developed by third parties. But as with most other projects I try to start on , I want to see if there's already an effort out there for this. Had anyone heard of anything similar to this?

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In reply to Potential project - Perl Beads? by Masem

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