Applied Perl - Peter Williams

Applied Perl Hands–on Perl Solutions from 13 Top Developers, Including Lincoln Stein Perl offers a versatile set of development tools that are applicable in a broad range of real–world environments. But how do you convince skeptical IT managers that a Perl solution is the best way to go? This book delivers answers. Drawing on his own successful Perl implementations as well as a variety of customizable systems, scripts, and tools from other notable Perl developers, Peter Williams punctures the myth of Perl "difficulty" and shows you how to create Perl solutions for financial transactions, Web communities, data reporting, WAP gateways, and many other IT challenges. Real–World Perl Success Stories and Tools, Complete with Code
* An operating system file monitor
* An application that communicates with Java applets
* Integrated real–time services for a visual arts Web community
* A financial calculator for bonds
* A database proxy for interproccess network communication
* A financial transaction settlement system
* A VAX data reporting system
* Networking and collaboration tools for an alumni Web community
* A fully functional client/server SOAP application
* Perl–based dynamic Web pages that function like JSP
* An Open Source WAP gateway
* A Perl object for on–the–fly filtering of financial data files
With contributions and code from these leading Perl developers: Lincoln Stein, programmer and researcher, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Gunther Birznieks, co–founder, eXtropia.com Richard Dice, author, SINS.net Ryan Eatmon, developer, Jabber.org John Herron, co–founder, Premier Technology Solutions Nikhil Kaul, senior Web developer, Barclays Capital Dan Lindy, founder, Touchmove Marco Mangone, programmer and researcher, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Jim Nekos, technology manager, Morgan Stanley Selena Sol, co–founder, eXtropia.com Rob Trangmar, CTO, Generic Network Systems, Inc. Aaron Young, application developer, Citadel Asset Management Companion Web Site All sample code and more available at www.peterwilliams.net www.mandtbooks.com

Peter Williams is a systems architect and programmer who builds financial trading tools for clients of Morgan Stanley. While serving as head of equity finance technology for Barclays Capital, he built the first Web–based trading application for securities lending. An expert in Perl, Java, and other languages, he has published a number of research papers and has written for LAN Magazine.