Michael's Tech Blog

Gantry is a new Perl Framework to develop web applications. It offers:

• Plugin architecture
• Support mod_perl 1.3 and 2.0
• Support CGI and Fast-CGI
• Support Template Toolkit and the ability to plugin other templating systems
• Inherited framework code for a standard CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) application.
• Calendaring support
• Cookie management
• Form generation and validation
• User authentication: user, group and page-based
• Class::DBI integration
• Database and SQL utilities
• AJAX Support
• TinyMCE Support (a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor)
• Code generation with BigTop – a Web Application Data Language processor

There are two existing, famous Perl MVC Frameworks: Maypole and Catalyst. Also the new one – Woodstock will be designed by Sebastian Riedel – the project founder of Catalyst and released soon. So, you have a choice when you decide to develop your web application on Perl.