Maypole is a Perl

Perl

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...

 web application framework

Web application framework

A web application framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of dynamic websites, web applications and web services. The framework aims to alleviate the overhead associated with common activities performed in Web development...

 for MVC

Model-view-controller

Model–view–controller is a software architecture, currently considered an architectural pattern used in software engineering. The pattern isolates "domain logic" from the user interface , permitting independent development, testing and maintenance of each .Model View Controller...

-oriented applications. Maypole is designed to minimize coding requirements for creating simple web interfaces to databases, while remaining flexible enough to support enterprise web applications. The principal author is Simon Cozens

Simon Cozens

Simon Cozens is a British Perl programmer, author, blogger and missionary. He is a graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford and All Nations Christian College . He is the author of over 100 modules on CPAN, and several books on Perl programming...

.

Maypole provides the top-level code which examines the user's request, fires off the relevant method

Method (computer science)

In object-oriented programming, a method is a subroutine associated with a class. Methods define the behavior to be exhibited by instances of the associated class at program run time...

 in the model, collates the data

Data

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, asks the view class

Class (computer science)

In object-oriented programming, a class is a construct that is used as a blueprint to create instances of itself – referred to as class instances, class objects, instance objects or simply objects. A class defines constituent members which enable these class instances to have state and behavior...

 to format it and sends it back to the user.

In addition, some common Perl modules, such as Apache

Apache HTTP Server

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, Class::DBI and Template Toolkit

Template Toolkit

The Template Toolkit is a template engine used primarily for building web sites, but is also suitable for creating any type of digital document, such as a PDF or LaTeX file. Template Toolkit is based on a mini-language and does not allow direct Perl in its templates, unlike some competing products...

, already perform important parts required for model, view or controller operation, so Maypole provides wrapper classes to help them fit into the framework.

Maypole has been relatively abandoned. Catalyst

Catalyst (software)

Catalyst is an open source web application framework written in Perl, that closely follows the model–view–controller architecture, and supports a number of experimental web patterns. It is written using Moose, a modern object system for Perl...

is its modern supported equivalent.