Suggest some good MVC framework in perl [closed]

Question

Can you suggest some good MVC framework for perl -- one I am aware of is catalyst

The need is to be able to expose services on the perl infrastructure which can be called by Java/.Net applications seamlessly.

Answer 1

Been playing with Squatting the last few days and I have to say it looks very promising and been fun to use.

Its a micro webframework (or web microframework ;-) and is heavily influenced by Camping which is written in Ruby.

NB. Squatting (& Camping) don't have model components baked into the framework. Here's the authors comments on models... "Models? The whole world is your model. ;-) I've always been ambivalent about defining policy here. Use whatever works for you"

Answer 2

There is also Clearpress which I can recommend as a useful database backed application. It needs fewer dependencies than Catalyst. We have written a few large applications with it, and I run a badminton ladder website using it.

Answer 3

I have built some applications with Kelp, it's easy to learn and very helpful.

Answer 4

Catalyst is the way to go. There is also Jifty, but (last time I looked), it had terrible documentation.

Answer 5

There is also CGI::Application, which is more like the guts of a framework. It helps a person to write basic CGI's and glue bits on to it to make it as custom as they like. So you can have it use hardly any modules, or just about everyone under the sun.

Answer 6

Since this old thread popped up, I will mention two exciting new additions to the Perl MVC world:

• Dancer (CPAN) which is heavily influenced by Ruby's Sinatra, known for being very lightweight
• Mojolicious (CPAN) which is written by the original developer of Catalyst to use what he learned there, it has no non-core dependencies, with very modern builtins (HTML5/CSS3/Websockets, JSON/XML parsers, its own UserAgent/templating engine)

(N.B. I have used Mojolicious more than Dancer, and as such if I missed some features of Dancer that I listed for Mojolicious then I apologize in advance)