[Catalyst] two Catalyst flaws

[Peter Edwards]

Simon>
>Catalyst is a web application framework. You have two choices:
>
>1. Use a simple LWP type script in cron to call the necessary web URI 
>and let the server do the heavy lifting; or
>
>2. Make sure you encapsulate the business logic in the model and not in 
>the controller, then you can just load the necessary schema classes and 
>ignore catalyst entirely.
>
>In the latter case there's still some work to do if you want to have a 
>shared config file but that's not too hard to figure out.

There's a Catalyst advent calendar article showing how to do this:

http://catalyst.perl.org/calendar/2007/14


Regards, Peter
http://perl.dragonstaff.co.uk