[Catalyst] [ANNOUNCE] Handel 0.18 Now Available

[Christopher H. Laco]

Somewhat offtopic, but people have shown interest in using it in 
Catalyst. And yes, I'm working on a Catalyst demo site for it too. :-)

After long hours of toiling, the programming gnomes in my basement are
proud to announce the availability of Handel 0.18. This is the first
release to be considered feature complete with full cart, order, and
checkout support for AxKit, Template-Toolkit in addition to consumption
within perl.

Handel-0.18.tar.gz has been uploaded to CPAN and should be available at
a mirror nearest you shortly.

NAME
       Handel - Simple commerce framework with AxKit/TT2 support

DESCRIPTION
       Handel is a quick and not-so-dirty ecommerce framework with AxKit
       taglib support and TT2 (Template Toolkit) support. It was started
       for the conversion of an IIS/ASP based commerce site to
       Apache/ModPerl, but I decided that is might be useful to others so
       here it is on CPAN.

       For the curious, Handel is German for commerce.

MAILING LIST
       Join the mailing list at
       http://lists.rawmode.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/handel.
       Big thanks to gabb@#catalyst for the list space.

GOALS
       Database agnostic. Thanks to Class::DBI and staying away from auto
       incrementing ids, Handel should run in any database that Class::DBI
       supports.

       Implementation agnostic. Handel should be able to be used from the
       command line, from a web page, from a SOAP service, or from a GUI
       application. It's simply a data access mechanism. Any interaction
       with forms, web pages, browser, cookies, etc is the responsibility
       of the consumer

       Checkout agnostic. A checkout process means different things to
       different people in different situations. The Handel checkout
       pipeline by itself does absolutely nothing with an order. It is
       instead a plugin manager that allows you to specifiy and build
       plugins to do various actions (payment autorization, address
       validation, fax delivery, etc).

       Each site, server, page, even process() call can have it's own
       unique order processing pipeline.

       Easy integration into AxKit using taglibs.

       Easy integration into TT2 using plugins.

WHAT HANDEL IS
       Simple cart and order record maintenance.
       Plugin based checkout pipeline processing framework.

WHAT HANDEL ISN'T
       Intershop, Cart32, WebGUI, CMS, complete web commerce package(1).

       Handel is a simple framework to load/upload cart/order data and
       shove that data through a plugin based pipeline.
       (1) While it is not a complete web based commerce system, I do plan
       on having feature complete working demos sites so people can still
       quick-start their own projects.

FEATURES
       Add/Update/Delete/Save/Restore Cart Contents
       Add/Update/Delete Order Contents
       Plugin based checkout pipeline to process orders
       Full AxKit XSP Taglib Support
       Template Toolkit 2 Plugin Support
       Currency Conversion
       Currency Formatting
       Basic Localization Support
       Multiple Database Support

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