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=head1 DESCRIPTION

This module embodies a web application for Creating, Retrieving,
Updating and Deleting records in relational databases (hence the
'CRUD' acronym). The 'C<Auto>' part of the name is because the
application automatically generates and immediately uses the
components needed to work with your data -- you don't have to edit
scaffolding code. The 'C<Plack>' part of the name comes from the
L<Plack middleware framework|Plack> used to implement this application.

To connect to one or several databases, just supply a configuration
file with the connnection information, and optionally some
presentation information, and then you can directly work with the
data. Optionally, the configuration file can also specify many
additional details, like table groups, column groups, data
descriptions, etc.  If more customization is needed, then you can
modify the presentation templates, or even subclass some parts of the
framework.

This application was designed to be easy to integrate with other web
resources in your organization : every table, every record, every
search form has its own URL which can be linked from other sources,
can be bookmarked, etc. This makes it a great tool for example
for adding an admin interface to an existing application : just
install AutoCRUD at a specific location within your Web server
(with appropriate access control :-).

Some distinctive features of this module, in comparison with other

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Data export in Excel, YAML, JSON, XML formats

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Extensibility through inheritance

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This application is also meant as an example for showing the
power of "Modern Perl", assembling several advanced frameworks
such as L<Moose>, L<Plack> and L<DBIx::DataModel>.


=head1 CONFIGURATION

The bare minimum for this application to run is to
get some configuration information about how to connect
to datasources. This can be done directly in Perl, like in 
the test file F<t/00_autocrud.t> :