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diff --git a/lib/Reaction/Manual/FAQ.pod b/lib/Reaction/Manual/FAQ.pod deleted file mode 100644 index 96f20fd..0000000 --- a/lib/Reaction/Manual/FAQ.pod +++ /dev/null @@ -1,101 +0,0 @@ -=head1 NAME - -Reaction::Manual::FAQ - -=head2 INTRODUCTION - -=head3 What is Reaction? - -Reaction is an MVCish framework that is designed with two goals in mind: -"don't repeat yourself" and "components rule." - -=head3 How is it different from other MVC frameworks? - -Reaction is more flexible and abstract. Web development is only a specialized -set of what Reaction is designed to provide - the inner classes are general -enough to be used in many different environments and for solving non-web -problems. - -It is planned to go a lot further than just the web - we want to develop GUIs -and CLIs as easily and painlessly as possible, using Reaction. How about -writing your web application and instantly getting a CLI to go with it? That's -only part of the flexibility we have in mind. - -=head3 How is it different from Catalyst? - -Catalyst is MVC-based whereas Reaction splits the Model into 2 parts: The -"Domain Model" and the "Interface Model." Web development is only a sample of -what Reaction can do - but it already comes bundled with the basic components -that you would have to program in Catalyst. At the moment, Reaction runs on -Catalyst for web development. - -=head3 What's a Domain? - -A domain is the field where an abstraction makes sense. For example, to build -a web site a programmer may come up with an abstraction of a User, Products, -User roles, etc. These concepts are just one particular implementation of all -the possible abstractions for that web site -- the set of all these possible -abstractions make up the Domain. - -=head3 What's a Domain Model? - -A Domain Model is an actual computational model of an abstraction. In most -cases these models are business-based, as in the set of objects that make up -the representation for a particular domain, such as Users, Products, User -Roles, etc. - -=head3 What's an Interface Model? - -A well defined model for the common operations involved in a particular mode -of interaction with the domain. In other words, it's a layer around the Domain -Model that provides interaction with it. One example would be an authorization -procedure for different views of the same data, based on user's credentials. - -=head3 I'm lost! What does "Model" mean? - -The term "model" can mean two things: "model as in Computer Model" and "Model -as in MVC". For this document, the former will be written as just "Model" -whereas the latter will be referred to as "Model as in MVC." - -=head3 Haven't I seen these definitions elsewhere? -Yes, similar terms have been used in Java-land and Smalltalk-ville. Note that -for the sake of simplicity we are not giving rigorous (and more complex) -definitions. - -=head3 What's a View? - -=head3 What's a Viewport? - -ListView and ActionForm are subclasses of ViewPort. - -=head3 What's a Focus Stack? - -=head3 What are Tangents? - -=head3 Can I have a pony? - -=head2 USING REACTION - -=head3 Where do I put my HTML? - -Packages involved - ComponentUI - ComponentUI::Controller::Bar - ComponentUI::Controller::Baz - ComponentUI::Controller::Foo - ComponentUI::Controller::Root - ComponentUI::Model::TestDB - ComponentUI::Model::Action - ComponentUI::View::XHTML - -CRUD - -=head1 AUTHORS - -See L<Reaction::Class> for authors. - -=head1 LICENSE - -See L<Reaction::Class> for the license. - -=cut |