CGI::Application::Generator - Dynamically build CGI::Application modules

CGI::Application::Generator provides a means by which a CGI::Application module can be created from code, as opposed to being written by hand.

Download site for CGI::Application::Generator:

http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=CGI-Application-Generator

CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.01:

First release version of CGI::Application::Generator, a module intended to allow the creation of CGI::Application modules dynamically.
Implemented an Object-Oriented interface to specify the functionality of your intended CGI::Application, used to build the structure automatically using a (configurable) template file.

HOW DO I INSTALL IT?

To install this module, cd to the directory that contains this README file and type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

CGI::Application::Generator is intended to create a shell of an application module based on the specification you provide. It will not output a completely functional application without additional coding. It will, however, handle the creation of all the structural parts of your application common to all CGI::Application-based modules.

The goal of CGI::Application::Generator is two-fold:

To ease the creation of new CGI::Application modules.
To allow standardization of CGI::Application coding styles to be more uniformly applied.

It is also the hope of this module that Computer Assisted Software Engineering (CASE) tools will eventually emerge which will allow the development process for web-based applications to be greatly improved. These CASE tools could more easily convert visual notation (such as UML state-transition diagrams) into method calls to this module, thereby creating actual code.

CGI::Application::Generator is not a system for HTML templates. If you're looking for a Perl module which will allow you to separate Perl from HTML then I recommend you download and install HTML::Template.

SUPPORT MAILING LIST

If you have any questions, comments, bug reports or feature suggestions, post them to the support mailing list! To join the mailing list, simply send a blank message to "cgiapp-subscribe@lists.erlbaum.net".

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