Major Packages

XAO::FS (version 1.06, 01/27/2005: Download | Manual Page | CPAN): Object oriented layer that completely hides underlying SQL database syntax yet provides efficient storage, search and retrieval capabilities. This is the database layer that keeps tens of millions of book data records on ISBNdb.com for instance.
XAO::Web (version 1.07, 02/01/2005: Download | Manual Page | CPAN): Web server support, templates processing, modules for embedding basic logic and data into templates -- such as data search and display, user authorization, date and numbers formatting, headers and footers, CGI parameters processing, form processing, etc. To get a general idea of what XAO::Web code looks like have a look at the page that shows its own source.

Support Packages

XAO::Base (version 1.06b, 01/27/2005: Download | Manual Page | CPAN): A set of very basic modules used by all other parts of the suite.
XAO::Content (version 1.02, 01/27/2005: Download | Manual Page | CPAN): Content management system for pages that appear static to web site viewers. Supports versioning, previewing, simultaneous and individual publishing, etc. Stores the actual content in the XAO::FS powered database.
XAO::Indexer (version 1.01, 01/27/2005: Download | Manual Page | CPAN): XAO::FS based full text indexing for fast searching of a variety of data. Supports ignored words, words in sequence and can actually index any data -- depending on specific plug-in modules that are required for each index.
XAO::MySQL (version 1.02, 01/27/2005: Download | Manual Page | CPAN): "Native" MySQL driver for XAO::FS that does not use DBI/DBD interface but links directly to MySQL C API instead. Tests show that it is 10..30% faster depending on usage patterns.
XAO::PodView (version 1.03, 01/27/2005: Download | Manual Page | CPAN): Parses and converts Perl's POD formatted documents and source files for Web display. This is what's used on this site to display the manual pages.

XAO::Commerce (version 1.02, 01/27/2005: Download | Manual Page | CPAN): An example of a working e-commerce website written using XAO Suite. Includes everything from code to sample products database and images. Unfortunately, is not actively supported or developed any more.
XAO::Catalogs (version 1.02, 01/27/2005: Download | Manual Page | CPAN): Catalogs conversion system designed to merge together multiple vendor catalogs into a single product database (including product name and category path mapping).
XAO::ImageCache (version 1.00, 02/01/2005: Download | Manual Page | CPAN): Image download and conversion tool; primarily for use with XAO::Commerce.