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=head1 DESCRIPTION

This module initiates persistent database connections using DBI::BabyConnect.

This module is best understood by going through the roadmap file and the
sample programs provided with this distribution. The roadmap file is
eg/README, and the sample programs are in eg/perl.

When loading the Apache::BabyConnect module, the
module looks if the environment variable BABYCONNECT has been set to the
URI location where it can read the configuration files, and if the 
the module DBI::BabyConnect has been loaded.
The startup script instantiates DBI::BabyConnect objects with caching
and persistence enabled. Each object is connected to a data source
that is described by the database descriptor. See L<DBI::BabyConnect> for
a clarification of database descriptors.

If you create a DBI::BabyConnect object from a Perl script, then if the
descriptor is found in the DBI::BabyConnect cache, you will be using
the cached object. Otherwise, a new DBI::BabyConnect is created with that