The reason I originally started trying to do something like this was that I'd found CGI::Application but didn't like that it didn't have either integrated validation or integrated support for template management. Then I found HTML::Template and it's another piece. Then there's Data::FormValidator, etc.

It seems like everyone wants to solve a piece of the problem without necessarily solving the entire problem (or providing a good set of glue to make all the pieces fit together). This module provides templating, that module provides for individual field validation, this other module provides for flow control.

That's all wonderful (and I'm really not getting down on the contributions of others), but with a large collection of modules, none of which do the entire task, and potentially non-trivial glue to write, it made me think there had to be a better way.

I'm definitely not saying that this (Framework.pm) is the better way. I'm going to sit and take a long look at the modules mentioned, but I think I'll be able to stand by my previous statement that most take a piecemeal approach to this problem.

Heck, maybe the right way to solve this is to come up with the glue that binds an orthogonal yet complete bunch of the pieces together. Dunno... That wasn't the swamp I was looking to drain. :-)