Publisher review:Mason is a powerful Perl-based web site development and delivery engine. Mason is a powerful Perl-based web site development and delivery engine. With Mason you can embed Perl code in your HTML and construct pages from shared, reusable components.
Mason solves the common problems of site development: caching, debugging, templating, maintaining development and production sites, and more.
Mason is 100% free and open source. Although it can be used from CGI or even stand-alone, it is optimally designed for use with two other open source technologies: mod_perl and Apache.
Mason is a tool for building, serving and managing large web sites. Its features make it an ideal backend for high load sites serving dynamic content, such as online newspapers or database driven e-commerce sites. Actually, Mason can be used to generate any sort of text, whether for a web site or not. But it was originally built for web sites and since that's why most people are interested in it, that is the focus of this documentation. Mason's various pieces revolve around the notion of "components''. A component is a mix of HTML, Perl, and special Mason commands, one component per file. So-called ''top-level`` components represent entire web-pages, while smaller components typically return HTML snippets for embedding in top-level components.
This object-like architecture greatly simplifies site maintenance: change a shared component, and you instantly changed all dependant pages that refer to it across a site (or across many virtual sites). Mason's component syntax lets designers separate a web page into programmatic and design elements. This means the esoteric Perl bits can be hidden near the bottom of a component, preloading simple variables for use above in the HTML. Requirements: · Perl, version 5.6.1 or later. · The Apache web server (recommended). · The mod_perl package (recommended).
Mason 2.22 is a Perl script for Content Management scripts design by masonhq.com.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris and has as system requierments: The mod_perl package (recommended).
Perl, version 5.6.1 or later.
The Apache web server (recommended).
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Mason is a powerful Perl-based web site development and delivery engine.
Requirements: The mod_perl package (recommended).
Perl, version 5.6.1 or later.
The Apache web server (recommended).
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
Mason 2.22 script details 
