Catalyst 5.8 The Perl MVC Framework

Abstract

Have you ever created a web application that is almost done but is hard to complete? It is a well known fact that 20 percent of the work takes 80 percent of the time in software development (80-20 rule Frednic Brooks). One of the reasons contributing to this is that it is easy to build web applications, but it's not so easy to build clean, scalable, and extendable web applications. MVC architecture aims at reducing most of the overheads involved in making this transition easy. Catalyst provides a mechanism to implement MVC and more complex design patterns for web application development. This books aims at taking you step- by-step from showing how MVC simplifies creating quality applications to how Catayst allows you to tap this power instantly. The book then takes the journey of good practices and continues to decouple the abstracted layers to explain how to use any object of your choice. The book finally explains advanced design patterns and concludes with the improvements that MOOSE brings in to all this.