[Catalyst] [ANNOUNCE] Handel 0.18 Now Available

[Randall Marbach]

Hi Chris

Will this run under Win2000? Will it work with Modperl
1 and/or Modperl 2?

TIA

Randy



--- "Christopher H. Laco" <claco at chrislaco.com> wrote:

> 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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> Catalyst at lists.rawmode.org
> http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst
> 



		
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