1. Introduction
Interchange is a highly-complex but very powerful web application server focused on ecommerce. It is built on the power of Perl, using many of its standard modules and capabilities while defining many more.
While Interchange focuses on e-commerce, it is really a general-purpose database access, retrieval, and templating systems. Besides online stores, here are some of the applications have been built on top of it:
Auction
Calendar
Configuration management
Content management
Document archival and rental
Guestbook
Image archival and download
Intranet
MP3 jukebox
Poll
Quiz
Software repository
Web log
This reference attempts to illuminate the source code of Interchagne and how you can write Perl enhancements, gadgets, and applications that integrate with Interchange.