-------------------- Gestinanna::POF 0.04 -------------------- Gestinanna::POF is a collection of modules providing an abstract persistant object framework intended for use by the Gestinanna application framework though it may be used outside of that framework. Gestinanna::POF currently supports Alzabo, MLDBM, LDAP, and aggregations of objects. Security is supported on an attribute basis instead of object basis, providing finer granularity than most other persistant object frameworks. A rudimentary, abstract locking protocol is supported. Transaction support is still in development. Gestinanna::POF tries to stress security over performance, so it may not perform as well as other frameworks. If you do not need attribute- level security, you will probably want to look at one of the more mature frameworks available on CPAN. To install Gestinanna::POF, download the distribution, untar, and cd into the resulting directory. There, run the following: % perl Makefile.PL % make % make test % make install or % perl Build.PL % ./Build % ./Build test % ./Build install Extensive tests of the Alzabo and aggregate support require the Alzabo package and DBD::SQLite. Testing of the MLDBM support requires the MLDBM module. Testing of the MLDBM::Sync support requires the MLDBM::Sync module. Testing locking requires the NEXT module. All modules required for testing and use are available on CPAN. The author lurks on both the mod_perl list as well as various IRC channels. Feel free to send questions there. Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Texas A&M University. All Rights Reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. $Id: README,v 1.4 2003/06/27 21:13:58 jgsmith Exp $