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Maypole framework

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Maypole is a Perl web application framework for MVC-oriented applications, similar to Jakarta's Struts. Maypole is designed to minimize coding requirements for creating simple web interfaces to databases, while remaining flexible enough to support enterprise web applications. The principal author is Simon Cozens.

Maypole provides the top-level code which examines the user's request, fires off the relevant method in the model, collates the data, asks the view class to format it up and sends it back to the user.

As well as this, some common Perl modules, such as Apache, Class::DBI and Template Toolkit, already perform important parts required for model, view or controller operation, so Maypole provides wrapper classes to help them fit into the framework.

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