What is CGI::Application?

• A Perl module, freely available from CPAN (natch)
• "Framework for Creating Web Applications"

'Web Application': More complicated than simple CGI scripts

Things like:

• Database Browsers
• Content Management Systems (Bricolage, Slash, Cascade)
• Web Stores

In general:

• multiple data sets
• multiple actions upon a data set
  (view, insert, update, delete)

(In CGI::Application, these actions are called run-modes.)