NAME

Apache2::ASP - ASP for Perl, reloaded. (DEPRECATED use ASP4 instead)

SYNOPSIS

DEPRECATED: Use ASP4 instead.

Hello World

  <html>
  <body><%= "Hello, World!" %></body>
  </html>

Favorite Color

  <html>
  <body>
  <%
    if( $Form->{favorite_color} )
    {
  %>
    Your favorite color is <%= $Server->HTMLEncode( $Form->{favorite_color} ) %>.
  <%
    }
    else
    {
  %>
    What is your favorite color?
    <form>
      <input type="text" name="favorite_color">
      <input type="submit" value="Submit">
    </form>
  <%
    }# end if()
  %>
  </body>
  </html>

DESCRIPTION

Apache2::ASP scales out well and has brought the ASP programming model to Perl in a new way.

This rewrite had a few major goals:

Master Pages
Like ASP.Net has, including nested Master Pages.
Partial-page caching
Like ASP.Net has.
Better configuration
The original config format was unsatisfactory.
Handle multiple VirtualHosts better.
Configuration was the root of this problem.

NOTE: If you use an ORM, make sure your ORM doesn't have any "global" configuration object in memory, unless it is schema-aware. DBIx::Class is good and Class::DBI::Lite also works well with Apache2::ASP. Do not use Class::DBI with Apache2::ASP because of configuration overlap problems which arise when you have 2 tables with the same name in 2 different databases.
Better performance
Server resources were being wasted on unnecessary activities like storing session state even when it had not changed, etc.