[PW-dev] Perl Widget Library => P5EE

[Stephen A. <ste...@of...>]

Hi,

There's been no traffic on this list for a while.
This email is to update you on what has been going on.

I am using the PWL in production at one of my customers.
This causes me to periodically update the CVS repository with
the latest code.

However, my attention has switched to the P5EE (Perl 5 Enterprise
Environment) project at

   http://www.officevision.com/pub/p5ee/

Everything in the Perl Widget Library that was good has found
its way into P5EE, so the PWL has no independent future.
Anyone of you subscribed to this list who still are interested
in Perl widgets as they were being developed here should subscribe
to the P5EE mailing list and follow unfolding developments there.

Here is a brief history of how this came to be.

 * I have long sought a way to create complex HTML UI's out of
   reusable components (widgets)
 * Discussion began on the mod_perl list concerning a widget
   library, to which I responded by starting this Sourceforge
   project.
 * I think what was envisioned by most participants was a very 
   lightweight library.
 * I, however, envisioned tight integration with Controller
   and Repository (persistence) components to facilitate
   active controls (with encapsulated event handling and bubbling
   to container widgets) and data-aware controls.
 * As I developed the concept, I realized that the Controller
   component really deserved to be central to a more far-reaching
   framework than just a widget library.  Furthermore, many other
   facilities (Config, debugging, etc.) were being duplicated
   between my separately developed Perl Widget Library and
   Perl Data Repository distributions.
 * Discussion began on the mod_perl list concerning a
   "J2EE for Perl" framework (later dubbed "P5EE").  I recognized
   this as a project that I wanted to be involved with, and I 
   responded by beginning work on the definition of P5EE.
      http://www.officevision.com/pub/p5ee/
 * It became apparent over time that many of the services I was
   working on for the Perl Widget Library were really appropriate
   for the P5EE, and the Widget library itself was but a small
   piece of the P5EE.  So I migrated all of the PWL code over
   to the P5EE project, and further development continues there.

So the Perl Widget Library is a dead end project, but all of the
promise that it held is alive and well in the P5EE project.
Feel free to unsubscribe from this mailing list.
From now on, all of the Perl Widget activity will be in the 
P5EE project.

Stephen