The core of every CGI application seems to be roughly the same: - analyze the incoming parameters, cookies, and URLs to determine the state of the application (let's call this "dispatch"). - based on the current state, analyze the incoming parameters to respond to any form submitted ("respond"). - from there, decide what response page should be generated, and produce it ("render"). CGI::Prototype creates a Class::Prototyped engine for doing all this, with the right amount of callback hooks to customize the process.