Re: ApacheCon: Getting the word out internally

On 2016/7/19 16:45, James Smith wrote:
> Probably once it becomes more prevelant - the perl6 community is still
> relatively small
> {moving current perl 5 codebases to it will be none-trivial} and most
> will not see the
> gain from doing so... It will take time for traction (similar to other
> moves like Drupal 7 -> 8)
>
> It is a different language and you have to think differently and code
> differently to use...

Thanks for pointing out that.

>
> perl 5 and mod_perl are still going strong... the point is that for the
> best part of 20 years
> both have been doing well and doing stuff right - they need tweaks here
> and there but
> you don't need to do huge amounts of development on top of what is
> already one of the
> best base levels for web development...

I have Java programming background, know some modperl development, wrote 
several handlers with mp2 which work really well.

but, does modperl have something like JDBC, the database connection pool?

thanks.