Apache::WebMessaging
I am about ready to release an intraserver web-messaging application for
mod_perl. A brief description of the app follows; I'd like to hear some
comments from the mod_perl/Perl/P5EE community on:
* is there anything like this already out there?
* namespace suggestions (if Apache::WebMessaging is undesirable)
* where and how to integrate it into the p5ee project (e.g.
P5EEx::Blue::Messaging::WebMessaging ?)
* general comments, questions?
This software was started as a way to deliver automatic server-generated
messages to users of a commercial web application. It was running on our
production webserver for a few years, so could be deemed "commercial-quality"
(whatever that means.. good or bad?). It has since been completely rewritten
into a form more suitable for general use in the open-source community.
It has support for attachments and outbound e-mail forwarding (via smtp). It
dynamically generates HTML using CGI.pm, using basic HTML v3 forms for user
interaction. It is entirely modular and component-oriented, so can easily be
private-labelled or embedded in another application. The design is fairly
similar to MVC architecture. It stores messages in a DBMS using DBI, and
attachments on a filesystem with a reference in the database table. It has an
object-oriented Perl API so message delivery can be triggered from either inside
a running mod_perl server or from a standalone app (e.g. another daemon or a
cron job). User-to-user messaging is supported through the standard web
interface.
My motives for releasing it open source are:
* to advocate mod_perl
* to attract developers to help improve the software, especially
by adding extensions
(e.g. inbound SMTP, pgp, gpg, jabber, alternate backing
stores, interfacing with standard mailbox types:
mbox, Maildir, etc)
If you want to play with it before I release it to CPAN, you can get a copy
here:
http://adiraj.org/sw/Apache-WebMessaging/Apache-WebMessaging-0.80pre1.tar.gz
TIA for any comments,
-Adi
