Utilities Guide

Table of Contents

Preface

How to Use this Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Contacting Technical Support

Acknowledgments

1. Welcome to the Perl Resource Kit

What Comes with the Resource Kit?

How Can I Use the Resource Kit?

What You Should Know (And Where to Learn More)

2. Installing the Resource Kit Software

Starting the Graphical Setup Tool

Installing a Precompiled Perl Binary

Installing the O'Reilly Extras

Installing, Updating, and Using CPAN Modules

Installing the Perl Source Code

Installing Software from the CD Manually

3. Perlez-Vous Java? Using JPL

Installing and Building JPL

Using JPL

Developing and Deploying Your Own JPL Applications

JPL Known Issues

Happy JPLing!

4. Going All AWT: Using the Java Abstract Window Toolkit with Perl

Using and Abusing AWT via JPL

Sample Application: An Interface to an FTP Search Server

What Next?

5. JPL and Applets: Using JPL with RMI

RMI Quick Start

Using JPL and RMI

6. Advanced JPL: SQL Databases and Dynamic Images

GIFGraph and Data::Xtab<

JDBC

Putting It All Together: JDBC Meets GIFgraph Meets Data::Xtab

A. JPL Reference

Features and Techniques

Known Problems

JPL and the Java Native Interface (JNI)

Debugging JPL Programs

Embedding Java in Perl

B. Selected Articles from The Perl Journal

Wherefore Art, Thou

How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project

Understanding Regular Expressions

CGI Scripts and Cookies

CGI Programming: The LWP Library

Index