Features

• Object "lifecycle" services:
  • accessors
  • data validation
    Data validation
    In computer science, data validation is the process of ensuring that a program operates on clean, correct and useful data. It uses routines, often called "validation rules" or "check routines", that check for correctness, meaningfulness, and security of data that are input to the system...
    
    
  • persistence
    Persistent data structure
    In computing, a persistent data structure is a data structure which always preserves the previous version of itself when it is modified; such data structures are effectively immutable, as their operations do not update the structure in-place, but instead always yield a new updated structure...
    
    
  • templates (vaguely akin to java interfaces
    Java Metadata Interface
    Given that metadata is a set of descriptive, structural and administrative data about a group of computer data , Java Metadata Interface is a platform-neutral specification that defines the creation, storage, access, lookup and exchange of metadata in the Java programming language.- History :The...
    
    )
  • metadata
    Metadata
    The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...
    
     (a.k.a. introspection
    Type introspection
    In computing, type introspection is a capability of some object-oriented programming languages to determine the type of an object at runtime. This is a notable capability of the Objective-C language, and is a common feature in any language that allows object classes to be manipulated as first-class...
    
    ), with metadata inheritance
  • role-based access control
    Role-Based Access Control
    In computer systems security, role-based access control is an approach to restricting system access to authorized users. It is used by the majority of enterprises with more than 500 employees, and can be implemented via mandatory access control or discretionary access control...
    
    
  • logging
• Unit testing
  Unit test
  In computer programming, unit testing is a method by which individual units of source code are tested to determine if they are fit for use.A unit is the smallest testable part of an application. In procedural programming a unit could be an entire module but is more commonly an individual function...
  
  

• Several application add-ons are pending for public release, including:
  • Metadata driven user interfaces (a Model-View-Controller
    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...
    
     implementation, usable in both HTML::Mason and cgi
    Common Gateway Interface
    The Common Gateway Interface is a standard method for web servers software to delegate the generation of web pages to executable files...
    
     script contexts)
  • An Identity management
    Identity management
    Identity management is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to the resources in that system by placing restrictions on the established identities of the individuals.Identity management is multidisciplinary and covers many...
    
     Suite, IdentiProv

External links

• myco distribution on the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
  CPAN
  CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is an archive of nearly 100,000 modules of software written in Perl, as well as documentation for it. It has a presence on the World Wide Web at and is mirrored worldwide at more than 200 locations...