The Definitive Guide to Catalyst

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Introducing the Catalyst Web Application Framework

   Pages 1-17

3. Catalyst Setup and Background Knowledge

   Pages 19-52

4. Your First Catalyst Application

   Pages 53-79

5. Extending LolCatalyst-Lite

   Pages 81-108

6. Deployment

   Pages 109-133

7. Database Models

   Pages 135-166

8. The Catalyst Dispatcher

   Pages 167-188

9. Authentication and Authorization

   Pages 189-218

10. Interacting with Web Services in Your Applications

    Pages 219-231

11. Extending Catalyst

    Pages 233-245

12. Catalyst Cookbook

    Pages 247-301

13. The Reaction Component UI Framework

    Pages 303-314

14. Back Matter

    Pages 315-331

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Learn to build web applications with Catalyst, the popular open source web framework based on the Perl programming language. The Definitive Guide to Catalyst: Writing Extendable, Scalable, and Maintainable Perl–Based Web Applications is a definitive guide to Catalyst version 5.8. This book contains

• Training materials for new and experience programmers.
• Worked examples and cookbook–style recipes of common web application programming tasks
• Fundamentals of web application design and best–practice application style

• Perl
• Scala
• database
• deployment
• framework
• programming
• programming language
• web services

Kieren Diment is a social researcher in the School of Management and Marketing, University of Wollongong, Australia, where he uses Catalyst for the collection analysis and presentation of research data. He has taken the lead in a significant portion of the Catalyst documentation including the Catalyst Advent Calendar in 2006 and 2007. His focus has been on ensuring a culture of documentation by example in the project, and ensuring that instructional documentation points to working example code wherever possible.

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